[G4] Switching internal optical drive to external case

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Richard Klein wrote:

> How will the G4 (running OS X Tiger) deal with having an external  
> optical drive, but no internal optical drive? Has anyone tried this?

Internal vs external is only an issue for a few Apple applications  
(DVD player, iMovie, and iMovie HD come to mind) that have to abide  
by certain CODEC licensing issues - in which case they only work with  
internal drives that are recognized as Apple Superdrives. In all  
other aspects there isn't any difference between internal and  
external other than Firewire being slower than ATA- which won't  
matter for CD and DVD drives anyway.

Phil



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