[P1] external DVD burner (firewire)

[Brian Olesky]

Just to be sure, before you buy it, call their tech support line, tell 'em
what you want to do, and ask them if it'll work the way you're hoping.

Brian


On 5/10/04 10:52 PM, "Angus Wallace" <angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au> wrote:

> Wow. I would've thought it would be faster than that.
> 
> That won't affect me though, as I only want to burn data DVDs for
> archiving and backup purposes.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Angus
> 
> On 11/05/2004, at 12:32 PM, Brian Olesky wrote:
> 
>> On 5/10/04 6:54 PM, "Angus Wallace" <angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> does anyone have any experience with using an external (firewire)
>>> DVD-R?
>> 
>> A year or so ago, I looked into getting one (settling on a La Cie), but
>> found that with a 600 mghz G3 iBook, you just don't have the processing
>> power. Their tech support actually admitted that burning a simple 7 or
>> 8 min
>> video to a blank DVD would take virtually all day. As you can expect,
>> I'm
>> still making do with CD's. However, if your 'Book's a G4...different
>> story.
>> 
>> Brian