On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 02:01 AM, Thubten Kunga wrote: > No John I can't. The Combo may have even been standard on the 500 MHz > model near the end of life. Apple was putting Combos in almost > everything by then. > No, that's not the case. My 500 BTO from Apple is one of the last shipped and it's a standard CD-RW. As well, a trip to the Internet Archive and looking back at the Apple.com site during early 2001 produces not even one mention. Likewise I don't recall a Combo drive being an option on my $3000 PM G4 733 Purchased March 31st of that year. John