Hello, I'm upgrading my PowerBook G3's (Lombard 333) CD-Rom to a CDRW. My parents have an iMac 233 with the CD-Rom acting up. Can I put my old drive into the iMac?
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just as long as the bezel fits
Even if the bezel doesn't fit, it should work- it just won't look as nice.
I read cd drives aren't compatible between rev. A and rev. B iMacs, so they may not be compatible with powerbook drives either (but it may just be the adapter board that's different, i dont know)
Apple is talking about the board that connects between that drive and the cable that the imac uses. Laptop drives are laptop drives... the connector doesn't change. However, because Apple ships and sells the CD-rom as a whole unit that includes the board. They say it is not compatible. The drives are physcally the same. Nothing throughout the major history of the removable CD-Roms has changed the port on the actual drive. The adapter board is what the difference is.
I have used a combo drive out of my Pismo that I owned (and that drive was a replacement from a 3rd party vendor that makes laptop drives for every major laptop) in a Rev A, and B imac. Even the Laptops have boards between the Drive and the Laptop. I also used a Dell CD-RW Drive unit in my Pismo for a while. All i did was remove the actual drive out of the Dell module caddy, and popped it into the Pismo caddy, and i had a 24x CD-RW
As a side note:
DVD Playback on Rev A & B imacs Suck. you might get max of 8fps and really choppy audio.