I would buy one for my Cube... In my opinion, it's better to pay an inflated price for an upgrade like this to allow me to preserve my Cube investment than it is to buy an iMac with a SuperDrive for $2k. On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 10:19 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote: > 300 Million and Counting: Recordable DVDs Set to Crush CDRs > by Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac > January 17th 2003 > > From http://www.insanelygreatmac.com/news.php?id=1544 > > Analysis: It's been rumored lately that Apple will dump CDRW drives > altogether across the model range this year, and opt for DVD-R/RW > drives, as their prices continue to fall. The shipping of the previous > (November 2002) PowerBooks with a DVD system disc was telling, as you > can't make a backup of it without a DVD-R drive, if you happen to own > a mere Combo PowerBook. . . >