On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 07:38PM, J.C. Webber III <jcw at kingoblio.com> wrote: >I bought my internal, slotloading Superdrive from MCE Technologies. >It's currently featured on their homepage. It looks like it has come >down in price since I bought mine (isn't that aways the way), and it >looks like they doubled the write speed. I think mine is only a 1X >and cost me >$400, but the one they are advertizing now is a 2x for $389. I haven't seen this mentioned (I only half pay attention anymore), but it looks like those 1x drives can be flashed with a firmware updater that will enable them to burn at 2x. Check it out here: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/pb_g4_superdrive/UJ-815_2x_firmware.html#storytop Let me know if you try it and if it works :) jesse .