Markus

Got a 1.25 but want it to run a little quicker?

Try this

angrynorth

He he, tip of the iceberg methinks. I'll bet there are so many mods coming over the next few months!

Markus

I personally fancy mini ata to standard ata connector cable, thus allowing you to have a nice external enclosure with a big hard drive in it Now, you could do this with a FW drive (seen a nice LaCie 500GB drive, yummy), as I'm guessing they are simply ATA/IDE drives in a FW enclousure. Not sure how much quicker FW is over ATA.

class_A

He calls them jumpers in the link, but they look like a surface mount component to me. I know the G3's used to have traditional mobo jumpers and the 750FX iBooks were controlled by an OpenFirmware setting, but most of Apple's recent stuff has needed a soldering iron and a steady hand to get anywhere.

Firewire 400 peaks around 40MByte/sec, some PATA drives (WD Caviar) can push this but even so you'd still see a healthy advantage over the internal 2.5" drive.