[CUBE] We NEED Slotload SuperDrives NOW!

[Thubten Kunga]

That makes sense. Those that only have CD-RW drives inside may want to 
switch to Combo. Isnt' that a minority of units? Aren't most 
DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drives?

But the note about SuperDrive speed — the media is very expensive when 
you go above 1x. So burning at 1x is about inexpensive media not about 
being slow. Just thought you might not understand that part of the 
equation.

k

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 08:31  PM, John T. Folden wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>
>> OK. My bad. But I honestly believe that not many Cube owners want 
>> Combo drives. Maybe I'm wrong. It only costs about $130 to have an 
>> external 40x12x48x CD-RW in a 1394 box. I can't see many paying twice 
>> as much just to have a much slower one inside. I don't see the 
>> economic motivation for much of a market.
>
> ummm, actually, I wouldn't mind a combo drive at all... My cube has 
> the internal
> cdrw (which I prefer over external) and since the DVD Player only 
> works with
> internal drives, a combo drive is the only way to go...  I do however 
> think that
> the internal SuperDrives that might fit the cube are too slow at 
> burning DVD's
> compared to what they might cost right now so...no rush.