New G4 towers w/ Sony Superdrives?
From <a href="http://www.macrumors.com" target="_blank">http://www.macrumors.com</a>
I just purchased a new 1.0 GHz iMac from an Apple store yesterday. To my surprise the Apple System Profiler reported that the DVD drive was not a Pioneer drive, but instead is a Sony DVD RW DW-U10A. Apparently this is a DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW drive. I had not been aware that Apple changed DVD drive hardware venders.
Apple has previously used a Pioneer drive in the past (for their "Superdrive"), which was limited to DVD-R and DVD-RW formats.
Can anyone comment or verify?
[ 02-21-2003: Message edited by: dstranathan ]</p>
I just purchased a new 1.0 GHz iMac from an Apple store yesterday. To my surprise the Apple System Profiler reported that the DVD drive was not a Pioneer drive, but instead is a Sony DVD RW DW-U10A. Apparently this is a DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW drive. I had not been aware that Apple changed DVD drive hardware venders.
Apple has previously used a Pioneer drive in the past (for their "Superdrive"), which was limited to DVD-R and DVD-RW formats.
Can anyone comment or verify?
[ 02-21-2003: Message edited by: dstranathan ]</p>
Comments
<strong>I would bet Apple has disabled the DVD+R/W capbility for now either with firmware or a simple lack of drivers. Somebody with one of these new Macs should test DVD+R/Ws with Toast...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Firmware disabled it appears... using toast resulted in a strange error by one of my friends. I will test my tower to see what it comes with on monday. Ive had a strange feeling that this is why the dual 1.25s w/ superdrive were backordered for 3 weeks because of supply problems... hummm cooincidence I think not.
A@ron
[ 02-22-2003: Message edited by: RodUK ]</p>