Nah, both the Sony DVD RW DW U10A and Pioneer Pioneer DVR 106D drive mechanisms are "SuperDrives" that burn DVDs as well...
I'm looking for the model number of the "DVD/CD-RW Combo" drive that reads DVDs but can't burn them. This drive is BTO only, so you have to specifically spec. it from the AppleStore.
I burn a lot of CDs, and I can't be bothered to wait on a SuperDrive to burn them when there are other 52x CD-R drives out there. I do however need to make sure that whichever Combo drive I fit is fully supported!
LiteOn do a combo drive that burns CDs at 52x, and reads DVDs as well. I know that previous generations of Power Macs have shipped with LiteOn drives in the past...
On a separate note - doesn't it strike you as strange that the single processor G5s ship with the Sony drive, whilst the dualie gets the Pioneer? I would have thought they would have gone for commonality across the range? Anybody know the differences?
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Originally posted by MacUsers
How do you find out... It doesn't say in the profiler when I checked at my local Apple store
Mine is identified in the system profiler under "Devices and Volumes" at the "CD-RW/DVD-R" Bus.
I'm looking for the model number of the "DVD/CD-RW Combo" drive that reads DVDs but can't burn them. This drive is BTO only, so you have to specifically spec. it from the AppleStore.
I burn a lot of CDs, and I can't be bothered to wait on a SuperDrive to burn them when there are other 52x CD-R drives out there. I do however need to make sure that whichever Combo drive I fit is fully supported!
LiteOn do a combo drive that burns CDs at 52x, and reads DVDs as well. I know that previous generations of Power Macs have shipped with LiteOn drives in the past...
On a separate note - doesn't it strike you as strange that the single processor G5s ship with the Sony drive, whilst the dualie gets the Pioneer? I would have thought they would have gone for commonality across the range? Anybody know the differences?
Originally posted by craig12co
My "combo" drive is a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R1312.
Thanks