New 1GHz Powerbook Superdrive DVD-RAM?

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Hi:



It's been several years since posting here as Appleinsider went dead for a while and I gave up. I had a ball posting here and discussing things when buying a new B&W G3 for my daughter.



Well now I'm waiting for my 1GHz Powerbook G4 w/Superdrive and 1gig RAM which I ordered from Apple Store on Nov 9th.



I've read in various forums that the Superdrive supports DVD-RAM (not confirmed by any postings I've read so far). If this is correct this would GREAT news indeed.



Can anyone confirm if the Superdrive supports DVD-RAM and operational under Mac OS X v10.2.2



Thanks in advance for any feedback on this issue.



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  • Reply 1 of 8
    discocowdiscocow Posts: 603member
    I don't think so Tim



    Sorry....
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    discocowdiscocow Posts: 603member
    Oh! And welcome back!
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    bxs6408bxs6408 Posts: 72member
    [quote]Originally posted by DiscoCow:

    <strong>I don't think so Tim



    Sorry....</strong><hr></blockquote>



    This doesn't sound like a definitive statement! What I'm hoping for is for someone who has the new Powerbook w/Superdrive to say one way or the other.



    Thanks for chiming in.



    BTW what makes you say "I don't think so" ?



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  • Reply 4 of 8
    sdw2001sdw2001 Posts: 18,067member
    [quote]Originally posted by bxs6408:

    <strong>



    This doesn't sound like a definitive statement! What I'm hoping for is for someone who has the new Powerbook w/Superdrive to say one way or the other.



    Thanks for chiming in.



    BTW what makes you say "I don't think so" ?



    [ 11-22-2002: Message edited by: bxs6408 ]</strong><hr></blockquote>





    He's quoting "Home Improvement".
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    keshkesh Posts: 621member
    Most DVD-RAM discs were caddy-loaded, rather than tray load, IIRC. I haven't seen a DVD-R drive yet that handles DVD-RAM, unless it also has a caddy system.



    I really doubt the PBG4GHZ (how's that for an acronym?) has support for DVD-RAM.
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    multimediamultimedia Posts: 1,061member
    [quote]Originally posted by Kesh:

    <strong>Most DVD-RAM discs were caddy-loaded, rather than tray load, IIRC. I haven't seen a DVD-R drive yet that handles DVD-RAM, unless it also has a caddy system.



    I really doubt the PBG4GHZ (how's that for an acronym?) has support for DVD-RAM.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It can play the single sided DVD-RAM disks you can take out of their caddy (required to write) but it writes DVD-RWs. What do you mean by the term "supports" DVD-RAM? If you mean "writes" no and why would you want to anyway? If you mean "reads" single sided DVD-RAM out of the cartridge, yes. That format is almost dead as a doornail Â?Â*one of Steve's bad bets in '99. He moved his chips to DVD-RW in January of 2000 with this SuperDrive series.
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    jcjc Posts: 342member
    I like the DVD Ram I have on my duel 500. it is useful for backing up things as it is rewritable.

    I guess the next thing is going to be DVD RW
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    The PowerBook G4 seems to be using a version of the Matshita UJ-815 that doesn't support DVD-RAM. It also doesn't seem to support DVD-RW from the Finder, Disk Copy or Toast, but somebody on MacNN claimed the iDVD swap trick worked...



    Hmm...
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