<strong>I hope they annouce a superdrive upgrade for older powerbooks
Do you think this is likely?? </strong><hr></blockquote>
Not?gonna?happen.
Response has been way too favorable and demand way too high for the new Superdrive Powerbook for Steve to even consider this. Why sell a $200-$300 upgrade when you can sell the whole $3,000 notebook?
Besides, this is not like last year's combo drive upgrade option as it involves iDVD 2. Policy on this has been very clear: want iDVD 2? Buy a new Superdrive Mac.
Apple's PB superdrive is a DOG. I ordered a powerbook with the Combo drive. It has faster DVD read (also faster CDRW, not that I care about that though).
I mean what the hell are you going to do with 1x DVD write? It would be better to get a normal DVD writer and stick it in a firewire drive box.
I would love to get a firewire superdrive and stick it in a firewire case. Especially since I have a Powermac tower, a powerbook and a PC and then I could use it with all three.
Is there some means of making iDVD2 work with external drives that I don't know about?
I mean what the hell are you going to do with 1x DVD write? It would be better to get a normal DVD writer and stick it in a firewire drive box.<hr></blockquote>
The internal drive allows you to burn DVDs from DVD Studio Pro and run iDVD 2 in the field. This is crucial for client demos in my line of work. The last thing I want to do is haul out a 10 pound external DVD-R drive and fumble around for an outlet in the middle of a presentation. Sure, the internal drive is slower, but this a very small price to pay for the elegance and constant availability of the built-in solution.
I mean what the hell are you going to do with 1x DVD write? It would be better to get a normal DVD writer and stick it in a firewire drive box.[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!?!
wow, u dont know what your talking about. i need a good computer, but i dont have a lot of money to spend. I need a dvd burner for occasional burning of the 3D animations i make, so the speed doesnt matter much, i just need it the capability. now, if i wanted the 2X, i would have to pay like $400 for the external drive, plus i would have to get software and not have the convienence of iDVD... its such a clear choice to get it built in, its only $200 extra from the combo. and external drive is like $400 and u need software, and u have an extra ugly box coming out of the laptop when u dont really need to. think about it
Next year DVD burners will get very cheap and run at least at 4X speed. 4X units are due next month and 2X will beome a budget item and then disappear.
DVD moves data at 9.6Mb/s (1X), So 1X recording on a DVD is substantially faster than 1X recording on a CD (150KB/s). 1X on a DVD is writing the same data rate as about 8X on a CD. When you think about it -- not so bad for backing up "data" here and there, 4X DVD should be quite acceptable. But encoding a "video" disc will still take a hellaofalong time. As means of data back-up it would be better to have a DVD-rw, but we don't have any info yet on whether the drives in any laptop unit are actually RW units or strictly DVD-R.
<strong>What a dumb thread. None of that is ever going to happen.. this is Apple we're talking about.</strong><hr></blockquote>
they did have a combo drive upgrade program last year... but that was under different circumstances.... the combo drives came out just 2 months after the powerbook release.
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<strong>I hope they annouce a superdrive upgrade for older powerbooks
Do you think this is likely??
Not?gonna?happen.
Response has been way too favorable and demand way too high for the new Superdrive Powerbook for Steve to even consider this. Why sell a $200-$300 upgrade when you can sell the whole $3,000 notebook?
Besides, this is not like last year's combo drive upgrade option as it involves iDVD 2. Policy on this has been very clear: want iDVD 2? Buy a new Superdrive Mac.
I mean what the hell are you going to do with 1x DVD write? It would be better to get a normal DVD writer and stick it in a firewire drive box.
Is there some means of making iDVD2 work with external drives that I don't know about?
Nick
I mean what the hell are you going to do with 1x DVD write? It would be better to get a normal DVD writer and stick it in a firewire drive box.<hr></blockquote>
The internal drive allows you to burn DVDs from DVD Studio Pro and run iDVD 2 in the field. This is crucial for client demos in my line of work. The last thing I want to do is haul out a 10 pound external DVD-R drive and fumble around for an outlet in the middle of a presentation. Sure, the internal drive is slower, but this a very small price to pay for the elegance and constant availability of the built-in solution.
I mean what the hell are you going to do with 1x DVD write? It would be better to get a normal DVD writer and stick it in a firewire drive box.[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!?!
wow, u dont know what your talking about. i need a good computer, but i dont have a lot of money to spend. I need a dvd burner for occasional burning of the 3D animations i make, so the speed doesnt matter much, i just need it the capability. now, if i wanted the 2X, i would have to pay like $400 for the external drive, plus i would have to get software and not have the convienence of iDVD... its such a clear choice to get it built in, its only $200 extra from the combo. and external drive is like $400 and u need software, and u have an extra ugly box coming out of the laptop when u dont really need to. think about it
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DVD moves data at 9.6Mb/s (1X), So 1X recording on a DVD is substantially faster than 1X recording on a CD (150KB/s). 1X on a DVD is writing the same data rate as about 8X on a CD. When you think about it -- not so bad for backing up "data" here and there, 4X DVD should be quite acceptable. But encoding a "video" disc will still take a hellaofalong time. As means of data back-up it would be better to have a DVD-rw, but we don't have any info yet on whether the drives in any laptop unit are actually RW units or strictly DVD-R.
<strong>What a dumb thread. None of that is ever going to happen.. this is Apple we're talking about.</strong><hr></blockquote>
they did have a combo drive upgrade program last year... but that was under different circumstances.... the combo drives came out just 2 months after the powerbook release.