iMac 350 IDE buses.

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Abacab

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My curiosity never stops...

In the iMac 350, there is an IDE cable that starts from the MoBo then goes to the CD-ROM drive (by the way, is it SCSI cause its larger?) then it goes to the HD. If the CDROM is SCSI, can I put another internal device? The IDE cable is really short, but if it was long, could I plug a CD-R and boot from CD or do something like that? Let's just forget there is not enough space in a iMac, what could I do/plug on that IDE bus? Can I overclock a iMac 350? in any way?

One last question. Being tired of having to make 22 kilometers everytime I want to enjoy a Mac (my father's), I'm thinking about buying myself one. Got my mind set on something like a B&W G3 350-450 (I'm not rich, I'm a student "Cégep", don't want to spend more than 500$ CAN.) What I want to know is :

iMac 350Mhz VS B&W G3 350 Mhz = Who wins?

p.s.: lets say these systems have the same amout of ram, same HD...blabla...

p.s.2.: I know its a lot of questions but thanks anyway for replying!
 
It's IDE inside, all the way, no SCSI. Even the CD-ROM drive... so you've got the two allowed devices on the IDE bus already, and cannot add another drive.

http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/blue.shtml

I would choose the G3 350 because it's more expandable and upgradable. You can swap out the graphics card for an ATI Radeon 9200 Mac Edition, put in four hard drives with the help of an ATA PCI card, upgrade the RAM to 1GB cheaply, put a SuperDrive in it for under $100, whereas none of this is possible with the iMac (save for the RAM, but it'll cost a pretty penny).

The downside is that you're gonna have to get a monitor to go with it, but if you already have one, get that B&W G3.
 
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