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To: Don Green who wrote (35877)	12/19/2002 8:21:54 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 213177

Build Your Own G4 That Will Run Mac Software With a little ingenuity you can make your own Mac-like computer. By Kevin Rose When it comes to PCs, geeks usually make a decision between buying a prebuilt computer or building one, component by component. This isn't true when it comes to Macintoshes. You're stuck with whatever Apple has to offer, with only a few measly dollars differentiating the products from retailer to retailer. Is it possible to build a Mac-like G4 computer from scratch? Yes and no. If you visit Apple's online store you won't find motherboards, processors, or Apple cases for sale. Instead you must search for alternative parts providers. Thankfully, in our quest to build a Mac-like G4 we ran across a great article from MacOpz. This article provides you with all the information you'll need to build your own Mac-like G4. It can be tricky to find the necessary parts. Here are the places where we obtained the parts for our G4: CPU I used a 1GHz G4 processor that I bought from Sonnet. Logic board At MacResQ we bought a PowerMac G4 AGP logic board with gigabit Ethernet. RAM There's nothing really special about the PC133 RAM we bought at Crucial. Power supply We bought ours on eBay. You can also buy power supplies at Nexcomp. Video card We chose an ATI video card. Hard drive You can go with just about any hard drive. We installed a Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB. Keyboard and mouse The ports on your motherboard will determine what kind of keyboard and mouse you can get. You may have to use USB or ADB. There are tons of replacement keyboards and mouses available. When you're done you'll have your very own G4. But don't call it a Mac. Only Apple can do that. techtv.com

To: Don Green who wrote (35877)	12/20/2002 1:50:16 PM
From: spitsong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Don Green: "The rest of the story" ... as you put it, is the same story as was summed up in the one sentence I cited. In other words, the link you cited would fail every company in the NASDAQ-100 by that criteria. >> Feel Invalidated ? What are you, slow?