[MacDV] DVD writing on *really low* G4?

Michael Winter winter at mac.com
Thu Apr 15 05:52:24 PDT 2004


On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Bruce Pillman wrote:

> I presume I could get a CPU upgrade and a Superdrive, but that is
> hundreds of dollars and I've never messed with a CPU upgrade before.
> It looks like I could get a used G4 (say 500 MHz to 1 GHz) for under
> $1000, but that's the upper limit of my price range.

You can buy a Pioneer DVR-107 (Superdrive) from OWC for $130 (you'd 
have to install it internally). See 
<http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_Specials.cfm?ID=6483&Item=PIODVR107> , 
though just to be sure, you can fire off an email to their tech support 
verify its support on your system.

-Mike



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