eMac CD drive

[Spartacus]

A friend of mine is thinking of buying an eMac.
She's a PC users but when I let her play around with OS X a little bit she was so impressed that she instantly wanted a Mac.

Her budget is limited so I recommended the eMac.
The problem is that the entry-level eMac (800 MHz, 40 GB HD, 128 MB RAM, CD-drive) only has a CD-drive and not a CD/RW drive. The rest of the model is fine for her.
The DVD/CD-RW combo model is unfortunately about 200 Euros more expensive.

Therefore, I was thinking if it was possible to simply replace the original CD-drive by a third-party CD-RW drive. Is the eMac using a standard IDE optical drive? Is it technically possible?

Or is this all nonsense and an external CD-RW drive is the solution (pretty expensive, though)?

Thanks!

[bil207]

It is possible to replace the CD/ROM in an eMac with a CD/RW, however this will void the warranty.

You can get instructions on replacing the optical drive in the eMac here.

[Mrious_be]

QUOTE(Spartacus @ May 23 2003, 2:56 PM)

Or is this all nonsense and an external CD-RW drive is the solution (pretty expensive, though)?

 That's what i would suggest Spartacus
Let your friend buy the first eMac if that's what he/she wants.
An external cd-rw can always bought a few months after, after he/she has enough money again.
And most of all (i have an external cd-writer) it's easier to have an external one, as you can make copies much easier that way.