TiBook owners... upgrade to Combo!

zo

I'm a bit mixed if this qualifies as a FUTURE hardware thread, but seeing that its still not available, I guess its borderline.



I was looking on <a href="http://www.apple.com/powerbook"; target="_blank">www.apple.com/powerbook</a> and at the bottom left of the page it said something I hadnt seen before:



[quote] Upgrade to a Combo drive. Starting January 14, 2002, Apple will offer current PowerBook G4 owners (550MHz and 667MHz) the opportunity to upgrade their existing DVD-ROM or CD-RW drive to the new Combo drive for US$299.

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I didnt see this announced anywhere else... or it could be that it was announced when DVD/CDR TiBook was first presented and I never heard it.



Anyway, pretty cool on Apple's part.

howyoudoin

when they updated the powerbook G4 to combo drives that what a small thing they said as well but its not really that bad of a price considering unless you built yours with cd-rw already

zo

[quote]Originally posted by howyoudoin:

<strong>when they updated the powerbook G4 to combo drives that what a small thing they said as well but its not really that bad of a price considering unless you built yours with cd-rw already</strong><hr></blockquote>





OK, sorry... hadnt noticed it before... close thread.. thanks

blizaine

I wonder what company finally came up with a thin-enough slot loading cd-rw/dvd drive to fit? and who is working on a slot loading superdrive.



Who ever makes it will sell a ton to apple considering that 3 of the 4 products will get it with their next revision and the 4th (iBook) will eventually.

max8319

i don't see the ibook getting a slot loading drive for a while. apple still needs to do this to keep the differences between the pb and the ibook big enough.



and the new imac may not go slotloading for a while also. they'd love to, but that would require a slot loading superdrive.....i don't see a slot loading superdrive being produced for a very long time now. look how long it took them to make a combo drive slot loading

eman

I hope the drives stay like they are now, only the TiBooks having slot loading. Try loading is better for future expansion, since there's many more tray loading drives.

:-)

I noticed Apple only offers the upgrade to 550Mhz+ models Why not in the earlier models???

bradbower

[quote]Originally posted by :-):

<strong>I noticed Apple only offers the upgrade to 550Mhz+ models Why not in the earlier models???</strong><hr></blockquote>



Large mobo redesign and different connector. It's just not possible.