[P1] external DVD burner (firewire)

[Angus Wallace]

Wow. I would've thought it would be faster than that.

That won't affect me though, as I only want to burn data DVDs for 
archiving and backup purposes.

Cheers,
-Angus

On 11/05/2004, at 12:32 PM, Brian Olesky wrote:

> On 5/10/04 6:54 PM, "Angus Wallace" <angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au> 
> wrote:
>
>> does anyone have any experience with using an external (firewire)
>> DVD-R?
>
> A year or so ago, I looked into getting one (settling on a La Cie), but
> found that with a 600 mghz G3 iBook, you just don't have the processing
> power. Their tech support actually admitted that burning a simple 7 or 
> 8 min
> video to a blank DVD would take virtually all day. As you can expect, 
> I'm
> still making do with CD's. However, if your 'Book's a G4...different 
> story.
>
> Brian
>
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