I had an idea for the site yesterday (Anthony, I was out so I couldn't IM you). I am thinking that it would be great to have a set of photos and descriptions of Macs. For example- MDD G4 Pics of the case, inside and out - Pics and dimensions of the Logic board and CPU, etc. Also pics and descriptions of Mac video cards and expansion cards. Like a data base that users can fill with info and pics. Why would this be useful? Say someone wants to mod a mac to a new case...they can prepare buy looking up info they need before they start or if they get stuck, can look up what parts they need.

Its just a thought. Maybe if someone else has any ideas to further this to be useful, they could post on it.

-maestro

Thats an awesome Idea actually. Just to judge interest out there. Who is willing to temporarily open up their machine for pics and take some measurements? And what mac system(s) do you have?

Someone should start the time-consuming process of taking screenshots of vital pics in the Apple repair PDF's.

you know i'll be willing to help any way possible.my systems are a g3 400 blue and white and a g3 700 ibook.

Im in of course. I have a mdd g4, b/w g3, b/w ibook, and a 7600. The repair guides are
good, but in black and white, plus with so many revisions, we need accuracy. There are several different g5 logic boards already.
-maestro

Ill be able to do some of the "copy-paste" from the apple service manuals (things are really slow at work at the moment).

I have the following systems:

eMac 1 ghz ATI graphics (the one in my profile), im not glad to take this apart again...
Powermac G3 b&w (when it gets back from repairs)
iMac 500 mhz (i gave it to my brother, so might be hard to get my hands on)
iMac DV 350 mhz.
iMac bondi blue 233 mhz.
Performa 640

Post edited by: griffer, at: 2005/04/20 13:03

the only problem that I foresee here is depth. It won't be useful if almost every mac out there is in the database. Otherwise it is almost useless. I do like the idea, but we need to come up with a solid idea on how to get almost every mac that is basically not out of date, into this database.

I think the Apple Service Manuals might be the only logical means to acccomplishment. Listening for ideas.

Yeah, i agree. Using the service manuals would be really good.

Maybe we could make the database with some kind of "personal notes", with each systems quirks. Like some only accept a 136 GB HD, the OS needs to be within the first 8 GB and so on...

But then again, it will be a huge task to make it properly...

sort of like a mac wikipedia?

yeah, something like that...

Post edited by: griffer, at: 2005/04/20 15:36