Good Afternoon/Morning etc etc......I feel lucky to have come across this forum....it has been by far the most helpful out there.....my main question has to do with hard drive and memory upgrade.......i have done my (half- arsed) homework and still need some help.....This is what i have in mind.....I have a 250 GB Maxtor ATA that I still have brand new from my PC days....never took out of box......I want to upgrade my 60 GB to that......and I also want to purchase a 1GB memory kit (factory slot & user slot)......my two main concerns are......1. Will my Mac fully read the 250 GB partion and 2. Will I have any problems running 1 GB memory on a 800 MHz CPU..........well experst and professionals......PLEASE HELP A FELLOW BROTHER IN NEED........GREATLY APPRECIATED...... THANKS

Per my experience I believe your computer as is will not be able to read the entire 250GB hard drive without an additional controller card. For some reason the 133MHz bus can only handle hard drives up to about the 130GB range. Anything above that will be read at half the size. You can purchase a $99 ATA133 controller card from http://www.sonnettech.com or place the drive in an external hard drive enclosure. Those enclosures sell at my store for around $50-60. As for RAM, the most you can fit in each slot is a 512 chip. There are three slots so you can get a max of 1.5 GB of RAM in there but I'm not aware of any way for it to read a single 1GB stick. If you do, make sure it is PC133 SDRAM built for a Mac computer. I'm not sure what happens if you place PC RAM in though. It might or might not work. Good luck!

Check out this site www.everymac.com. after you find the spec page just click on the 'link' for more info. www.macsales.com is good for finding upgrade parts.