External DVD Drives-Experiences-Recommendations

[Rod Duncan]

I did post this on the Powerbook Titanium list too, so apologies to 
subscribers of both.

I am looking to buy an external DVD burner for use with a Ti 667 DVI. 
The idea of a portable DVD burner in the Ti sounds great but the 
reality of the 1X burn speed isn't. I have decided to suffer without 
true DVD burn portability and iDVD but will have, in compensation, 4X 
burn speed with the new Pioneer.

I am looking at the Formac burner with its Devideon (in-house) 
software. Any comments on this combination? Other World Computing and 
other companies are bundling the Pioneer in external firewire boxes 
and are offering ClarisMac's Discribe with their packages. Any 
experiences with these? Or is it just as good/cheaper to buy a bare 
drive and throw it in a firewire box? Any other suggestions?

Please and Thanks.

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Rod Duncan

"Buy a Mac and be thought a fool
or buy a Windows box and remove all doubt."