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Can I use a PC drive in my Macintosh machine?

PC and Mac Drives

Can't find a Macintosh drive for your Mac? Well, IDE is IDE, and SCSI is SCSI ... they are not platform dependent. So go ahead and get that PC IDE drive for your Mac ... it should work just fine (and will probably be cheaper than the same size drive that's sold "for the Mac").

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