[CUBE] We Can Have SuperDrive "Inside" Now

[Don Linares]

Slotted Superdrive for Powerbook G4s (and Cubes perhaps?) - From a 
reader email today (since the cube also uses a notebook type slotted 
drive, I suspect it might also work for the Cube)

" I am surprised no other sites have mentioned this, although MCE 
clearly  has other issues (since only one of four Macworld 
announcements is  listed on their homepage http://www.powerbook1.com ).
Apparently MCE will be offering SuperDrive upgrades for PowerBook Ti  
owners starting February 25th for $449. The site has no other info  
(does that price require trade in of the existing drive?) and in fact  
has not yet been updated to show three other announcements that were 
supposed to be revealed Jan 8 (Superdrive ug for iBooks?) Jan 9  
(External DVD Burner of some sort?) and Jan 10 (some drive for iMacs?).
However I spoke to the local MCE authorized repair center and they  
confirmed the program and the price but had no info on availability  
(but commented on how hard it is to get the mechanisms for their  
previous Ti Book dvd to combo drive upgrade program).

As the owner of a Ti 800 DVI I am really very excited about this - I  
waited as long as I could to buy this machine last spring but finally  
work pressures forced me to make the purchase before SuperDrive  
equipped PowerBooks were released. It is especially appealling now that 
  I can get iDVD for $49 as a part of the iLife retail offering.
thanks
chris "
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 12:30  PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> Thank you for affirming what I have been over affirming alone on this 
> list for longer than some list members have cared to read. It is truly 
> sad that the Apple marketing department really believes that a 
> significant number of legacy G4 owners will spend thousands of dollars 
> to buy a new G4 with a SuperDrive inside it because they maintain iDVD 
> to only work with internal drives. The reality is that only Cube 
> owners and folks who recently bought flat panel iMacs without one are 
> truly impacted.
>
> k
>
> On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 08:53  AM, abillups at mac.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the information. I just can't believe that there isn't 
>> someone out there who is going to let the vast number of people who 
>> want to burn DVD's be unserved. There always seems to be a solution 
>> to every problem on the mac by mac people.
>>
>> There have to be millions of us out here who want to use their 
>> "legacy" G4's to burn DVD's with an external drive. And now that 
>> iLife is offered, I can't see why Apple doesn't just charge for the 
>> licensing fee extra, or sell an external of their own, including the 
>> licensing fee and capability.
>>
>> We all know they need to sell equipment, but with the success of all 
>> of these iLife programs and now releasing safari, Keynote, and Final 
>> Cut Express, they realize there is a market for consumer softerware 
>> to support existing systems and their digital hub push.
>
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