Re: Computers--Mac & PC in one box

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

> The good news--RAM is cheap and so are Hard Drives--BUT, if the Mac isn't
> using a PCI bus for the HD then you can't simply add another drive (on PC
> systems today you can usually run 3 hard drives and a CD-rom from the same
> controller).  The PowerMacs we have can only support a single Hard Drive
> and so we had to 'discard' the original drives when adding new ones.  Also,
> be sure to check if there are open slots for the RAM such that you don't
> have to discard what's there to add more.

Macs support more than one hard disk easily. I have three on my Power Mac.
One just runs them on a SCSI daisy chain. (My Mac also has PCI slots, but
there is so much built in that I will probably never use them.)

I often wonder why anyone would want to run PC applications on a Mac. It
is cheaper and probably faster to run them on a PC.

Leigh