Posted by Smarty on 04/18/07 00:17

The heads of the screws are decorative but take a standard Phillips head
screw driver. I mistakenly said Allan head previously and now correct
myself. The threads of the screws are the same size used to bolt into the
disk drives in any other mounting method, and therefore you can easily swap
the Apple screws with conventional screws and it will make no difference. In
fact, the decorative screws are hidden inside the tray / case when the
drives are installed.....

Smarty

"Laurence Payne" <lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:56:16 GMT, "Luis Ortega" <lortega@ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Thanks, guys. The memory specific to the Mac Pro on Crucial's website is
>>not
>>nearly as expensive as buying it up front at the Apple store when ordering
>>a
>>Mac Pro. And 7200 rpm sata hard drives are much cheaper to buy on my own
>>than adding them to the initial purchase at the Apple store.
>>I would assume that these sort of components will be compatible and not
>>any
>>harder to install than for a PC. or am I wrong to assume this?
>
> Yeah. And it's not just a Mac thing. Check Dell's prices for
> upgrades and extras against the street price. It can be quite
> frightening.
>
> Drives slot into a Mac Pro very easily. I seem to recall they show
> off by providing non-standard screws :-)

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