Anybody burning DVD's with their Powerbook?
IMHO, Jobs must be having more than his share of sleepless nights waiting for the day when a Superdrive can be packed into a Powerbook, since that's the feature that actually places the pro-line Tibook _beneath_ the consumer iMac in terms of productivity -- not to mention the speed differential between the two. Plus, Apple seems to be placing a near-monolithic stack of chips on Macs taking a hefty grip on the movie/video industry, and it seems that its Superdrives are part of this strategy.
Until this day, what solutions are people using? There are a few Firewire DVD-burners on the market, but they seem pretty darn heavy (almost as heavy as a Tibook itself.) Looking at the choices, I can only guess that the representative hardware speaks to the reason that Apple's portables haven't seen these drives yet -- namely, the fact that no one's come up with a way to make them small enough yet.
While I wait to hit *my* $4000 price point in ye old savings account, though, I'm kneeling beside my bed at night with images of a slot-loading DVD burner floating by.
Here's hoping,
Pete
Until this day, what solutions are people using? There are a few Firewire DVD-burners on the market, but they seem pretty darn heavy (almost as heavy as a Tibook itself.) Looking at the choices, I can only guess that the representative hardware speaks to the reason that Apple's portables haven't seen these drives yet -- namely, the fact that no one's come up with a way to make them small enough yet.
While I wait to hit *my* $4000 price point in ye old savings account, though, I'm kneeling beside my bed at night with images of a slot-loading DVD burner floating by.
Here's hoping,
Pete
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Keep it setup at your desk and use your CD-R for portable use... yes?
The only thing you can do with an external DVD-R is burn/read Data or Burn DVD-R from DVD StudioPro. You cannot play-back DVDs (at least not using Apple's DVD Player), cannot use iDVD or even preview projects within DVD Studio Pro with an external FireWire DVD-R drive... so why lug it around...?
Peace...
I too would like a superdrive powerbook, or at least a better way to use an external. I think it sucks that you can't use iDVD and so forth on external drives.