[MacDV] iDVD3 + DVR-105 Inside or Out?

[Thubten Kunga]

You were supposed to PAY for the rain check so you got it for $220 to 
begin with.

Your Ti500 won't allow for a SuperDrive retrofit. 667 and 800 TiBooks 
will. But the upgrade is about $450. Ouch!

No work around for iDVD3 to work outside the box unless you have a Cube.

PowerBook and iBook owners have several choices. Buy a refurbished eMac 
with SuperDrive for about $1199. Buy a used G4-733 with a SuperDrive 
(the first one should be available for less than $999). Or sell your 
Ti500 and buy a GHz TiBook with Superdrive at the new lower price of 
$2800. Buy a refurbished or used 15" G4 iMac for less than $1500. Or 
buy any old G4 and put a 105 inside. You have got to have a Mac that 
either has one inside or one that you can put one inside.

The Cube core can be pulled and the optical power and IDE connectors 
are long enough to reach outside that naked core to allow a 105 to be 
thought by the computer to be inside the Cube while in fact it's 
running outside the box. It ain't pretty, but it works.

All G4 tower owners can put a 105 inside easily and put what was inside 
in a FireWire box or forgetaboutit. You can even hack any G4 Tower to 
fit any two 5.25" drives. I know because I even did it with my old B&W 
G3 Tower — the precursor to all G4 Towers.

k

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 07:03  PM, Bart Dame wrote:

> On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 01:33  AM, Randy Clark wrote:
>
>> Still crossing my fingers on getting the Cendyne internal DVD burner
>> (Pioneer DVR-105 model)... it's on backorder right now.
>>
> And, on 1/11/03 9:41 AM, Thubten Kunga at Kunga at FutureMedia.org wrote:
>
>>  BTW did you read my posts about the
>> internal/external 105 hack so you can run iDVD3? You won't need a case
>> if you want to run it that way.
>>
> So, after lurking a while, I write:
>
> Hi guys! I'm in the same boat as Randy. Almost. I got a raincheck from 
> Office Max on the CeleDyne/ Pioneer drive. Given the confusion that 
> I've read about here, I'm not sure if it will be the 104 or the 105, 
> though I spec'd the 105. Nor am I certain that it will arrive before 
> the CeleDyne rebate offer runs out. Nor do I know if Office Max will 
> honor their own now expired instant rebate, although I assume that 
> that's what the raincheck is for.
>
> If, somehow through all these uncertainties, a reasonably priced 
> Pioneer 105  arrives for me, I will also be putting it into an 
> external firewire case. I am looking at the Pyro. That part seems 
> pretty straightforward to me and, yes, <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com> is 
> an excellent resource. I read it thoroughly every time I begin to 
> covet more storage. (Seems to be about every 6 to 9 months!)
>
> I have a TiBook 500 with an external Western Digital 120 GB FireWire 
> HD. I doubt the Pioneer drive will easily swap into the space 
> currently occupied  by the the slot-loading DVD drive ;0, So if some 
> work-around exists to use iDVD with an external drive setup, I'd 
> appreciate any advice I can get.
>
> TIA,
> Bart