[Cube] Cube Hardware Test CD

[Donald Schwab]

Nero isn't bad, but lord is it Germanically complex!  Sort of like that 
button thing on the dash of a BMW 7 series -- intended to make 
operating all car functions simple, allegedly, but in reality the 
driver instead spends inordinate time rotating a knob and seeking 
functions!  Technology for its own sake!

Last year I had the pleasure of copying a series of Hong Kong soap 
operas onto DVD-R blanks with a NEC DVD reader, then latest Sony 
external FW/USB dual DVD-+RW, and the latest Nero.  It worked fine, but 
I had to mind my manners constantly.  Recently, using the ancient 
DVD-ROM in the Cube and my recently acquired Lacie external FW DVD+-RW, 
doing a few more transcriptions for my friend was not much more 
difficult than dropping in the master and the blank, and making one 
choice, in Toast Titanium 6.  A beautiful program -- but then, I am a 
died in the wool copyist, so I would probably lean to terming it the 
very best OS X program!

Don



On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:45 AM, atoa at krak.net wrote:

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>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Donald Schwab wrote:
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>> Of course, the answer is to save the pennies and get toast.
>>
>> Or do as I did, buy a Lacie FW DVD burner in order to get the 
>> included Toast Titanium.
>>
>> As a veteran of innumerable CD/DVD burning programs, most confessedly 
>> of the cursed Wintel variety, I find Toast the single best program 
>> I've on my Cube -- simple elegance, yet does any or all of the 
>> sophisticated things I've wanted to do.
>
> Agreed. Nero, on the wintel side, is the best of a bad lot, but I even 
> had a .nrg that wouldn't burn. Toast burned it just fine.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Allan Hise wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 atoa at krak.net wrote:
>>>> Daniel- why waste the bandwidth getting the .dmg, if you have the 
>>>> toast
>>>> image?
>>> If you don't have toast, can you do anything with the image? Will
>>> finder/Disk Utility mount a toast image?
>>> If not, that could be a reason.
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