PB 1gz owners
I just got my 12 incher Super Drive. I am mostly happy with it. One thing I notice is after I have it on for along time, the left side by palm gets hot and the hard drive, or fan noize gets preety loud (only when it is on for a long time. Is this a normal thing for you other 12 inchers? Please post problems or anomolies.
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Can you use the superdrive to read DVD+R plates that have been burnt by a Windoze PC?
Originally posted by leob
Do you know if the Superdrive in the new 12" supports writing to DVD-RW?
Can you use the superdrive to read DVD+R plates that have been burnt by a Windoze PC?
this is a question i'd like to know the answer to.. i have owned _both_ rev A and b (currently) 12" powerbooks. the old superdrive was model UJ-815, which supported dvd-rw and reading of +r (not sure about +rw), but these capabilities (along with 8x CDRW and 16x CDR) were disabled purposly by apple for whatever reason. Cynikal (superdrive.cynikal.net) packaged up new firmware which re-enabled these abilities, and users reported good results with the new firmware. however - the REv B models have an UJ-816, which according to apple, will do all the faster cd burning of the firmware-hacked older UJ-815, but is tight lipped about the other features cynikals' firmware enabled (namely -rw).
this powerbook being only a few days old, i haven't yet had a chance to test it (if anyone's asking - DVD+RWs DEFINATELY don't work but i will in the next day or so. cynikal tells me it does everything (dvd-rw, reading dvd+ etc), but i'm yet to see it..
(Mini Powerbook 12inch review)
I just replaced my Powerbook 15inch 1 GHz with the new 12inch 1 GHz machine. First impressions are really COOL looking machine. It feels more solid all around, keyboard is fantastic, size is a lot better for me and it seems faster. It does get really hot though, ouch hot, I bought one of those fan pads for notebooks in fear I would melt my table. Also got four of those dreaded dead pixels, 2,000 bucks for a machine and you get a broken screen, uuurrrggghhh. Just out of curiosity does anyone else feel Apples quality is slipping. I like the 12inch but it seems that the last three Apple machines I?ve owned had some sort of problem. Maybe I?m picky, but my TI I just replaced was a nightmare, so was the TI before it; chipping paint, bad screen, dead battery, broken hinges; cracked plastic and dead ports have all plagued them. In fact, come to think about it I haven?t owned a Mac past its warranty in five years because they keep falling apart on me. I think Steve is doing a good job for making profits for Apple but at a cost of decreasing quality.