For discussion of optical drives for the Macintosh - CD or DVD.

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I would like to swap out a CD read-only drive for a DVD read/write drive, 
in a 2001 Mac G4 (533 MH). Is this easy to do? I don't want to get into 
the guts and discover I can't do it, or need a special cable, or whatever.

In a PC they use the same cables.  Make sure they both are set the same way:
MA, SL, or CS.  If you play music to speakers, you need to plug the sound
cable in, along with data and power cables.   Some cases are tricky to get
apart.  There are probably screws holding the drives in place.

I found a web site giving explicit directiions for this computer.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/hival52x/install.html

Amazing place, the web. There are still problems in finding stuff, however.
One has to refine one's searches in not always obvious ways.

I have thought about buying a G4 tower, but past experience with Apple
firmware makes me wary.  I like DVD-RAM drives btw.

Macs are mostly virus free.....

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Ghost of past desires... I got the DVD drive, but haven't installed it 
in the 2001 G4, mostly because I got a MacBookPro and have slowly 
shifted over. Obsolesence is always nipping at one's heels.....

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