Upgrading and Fixing Macs and iMacs For Dummies
Now that they've been around for a couple of years, older "Renaissance"  Macs (meaning iMac and G-series computers) are starting to need upgrades.Upgrading and Fixing Macs and iMacs for Dummiesshows how you can extend  your Mac's set of capabilities and improve its performance through hardware  additions and modifications. Author Todd Stauffer ably explains what youcando, and comments extensively on what'sworthdoing. He also  documents some common failures (such as the "Click of Death" problem that crops up on someIomega Zip drives) and explains how to deal with them.Because Apple designed the Macintosh line with easy upgrades (among other  things) in mind, the job of this book is mainly to explain what sorts of upgrade  products you can buy and how to distinguish among them. In large measure, this  is a matter of decoding jargon and explaining at a fairly high level how things  work. For example, Stauffer goes into detail on video resolution and why you  might want to replace your current monitor and video card with better ones,  defining terms and trade names as he goes. He also tells how to perform some  upgrades step by step: for instance, how to upgrade a processor chip and  configure a Mac for use on an AppleTalk network.--David WallTopics covered:Hardware upgrades for iMac and PowerMac G-series  computers, and the related software procedures. Input devices (keyboards,scanners, and the like),  connectivity units (such asmodems),monitors, storage media (includingCD recorders,extra hard  disks, removable disks, andtape drives), andnetwork hardware.