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DVD burners
Name: Al Currie Date: September 18, 2002 at 21:11:39 Pacific OS: 10.2 CPU/Ram: G4 DUAL 867
Comment:
I'm considering buying a new PowerMac, but cannot decide if I should spend the extra 200 bucks to ugrade to the superdrive, or take the default dvd,cd-rw and buy a DVD-r/-rw or +r/+rw . My concern is that the superdrive seems to be able to only burn DVD-R, not -RW,+R or +RW. Any thoughts?
Name: the pickle Date: September 19, 2002 at 21:01:16 Pacific
Reply:
Do you want to be able to write video DVDs?
That's the only good reason (well, OK, huge backups, but it's pretty slow for that) to get a SuperDrive, IMO. If you're more concerned about data or only care about watching movies, get the stock combo drive and consider an external DVD writer when the format wars play out.
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