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Quadra 700

The Quadra 700 is a very popular Mac with collectors. It has a unique design, looking like a IIci flipped on its side. It's famous for being in the Jurrasic Park movie, and it doesn't suffer from leaking SMD capacitors, unlike most other models from this time.

Macintosh Quadra 700 Upgrades

The Quadra 700 is a very upgradable machine. The most popular and sought-after upgrade for the Quadra 700 has to be the PowerPC upgrade card, but there are many others as well. Here's a list!

PowerPC Upgrade Card

The PowerPC upgrade card, as the name implies, allows you to get the power of the PowerPC on your Quadra. Performance depends on the card you have, but on later cards made by Sonnet, you could get up to a blazing 100MHz. Still, these cards are very rare today, and you would be lucky to find one, 100MHz or not. Putting a PowerPC upgrade card in your Quadra will yield you the performance of the PowerPC, a new boot chime, and the title of the Power Macintosh 700. A worthy upgrade indeed, if you can find one.

But how do I get an SSD in it?

See our page on SCSI Solid State Devices for more info.

The Forbidden CD-ROM upgrade

It is actually possible to install a CD-ROM drive inside of a Quadra 700. The internal interface is SCSI, so nothing's stopping you from putting one in. If you do decide to perform the forbidden CD-ROM upgrade, good luck getting it back together.

Obviously, this upgrade wouldn't be possible practically speaking, but you can use it as a quick hack if you need to mount a CD and don't have an external drive.

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