Dude, someone just GAVE you a PowerBook G4? Now, with this old iMac, it really isn't worth more than about $100 (even if it had a working CD drive), so for the computer illiterate, it's not worth keeping around. But PowerBook G4s... they are very nice, and still worth quite a bit (even for the old ones, you should be able to get probably around $700).
Oh yeah, and MCE's CD-RW drive costs more than just buying an extra used iMac off eBay for parts. I dunno, maybe I could somehow rig up a smallish CD-ROM drive, assuming I'd be able to find one. But it's DEFINITELY not worth the $179 price tag MCE puts on it. As much as they'd like you to believe it, iMacs don't use special "Mac-only" optical drives. They're just smaller versions of the same thing you can get anywhere else for $10-$20.
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