[G4] CD Burner Question (want to buy one)

[Mel Krewall]

 I just bought a Lite-On 48x24x48 CD-RW from Other World Computing to put in a FireWire case, but it will work as an internal as well. It is iTunes and Disk Burner compatible and goes for $70 by itself or $88 in a kit with Toast 5.2 Lite and 25 pieces of media. I have been very satisfied with mine. You can't buy just any drive, though. Not all drives work with iTunes and Disk Burner nor are all drives bootable. A good place to check is at www.xlr8yourmac.com, which maintains an extensive list of reader reports on drive compatibility. You can search for the drive your are interested in.


On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 04:58AM, Rosenberger, Anthony B. (Tony) <arr4 at cdc.gov> wrote:

>I have a G4 sawtooth 450, which only has a DVD rom drive.  I am interested
>in buying a CDRW drive to install.  Do I have to buy one from apple and
>spend 3x more, or can I just go out and buy any IDE ATAPI CDRW drive.  I
>know any ATAPI cdrom will work to read, but what about burning support on a
>non apple CDRW drive from iTunes, toast, etc.  Please let me know any
>experiences I should be aware of before I make the desion on which one to
>buy.  I just cant see spending the extra cash since drives are so cheap.
>Also, I do not want an external. Thanks all.
>
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