External DVD Drives-Experiences-Recommendations

[Rod Duncan]

I am looking to buy an external DVD burner 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. Anyone 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."