Re: choices / CD-RW drives
I have to tell you, the reason I got my iBook was that it was the first portable laptop Apple has sold in a while. The Combo drive is worth the extra bucks in the long run. I bought a Wallstreet CD version and afterwords had to go on a trip with my 7 year old. I bought a DVD module and decoder card and watched movies on the way. Then I started needing data off of the laptop when I was out on the job to dump into iMacs. If the iBook wouldn't have come out, I would have ended up buying the CD-RW module. Spend the extra bucks. You won't regret it. I burn music CDs for my wife, watch movies and play Tomb Raider with my son on this thing all of the time. You ought to see the BAA-BAAs (Windows Sheep) when the glowing Apple lights up and I start a movie on this laptopm or open iTunes and burn a CD on battery power. Terry Holtrey This Old Mac Columbus, Ohio -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
choices / CD-RW drives
Thanks for asking that question about the iBook options, Eric - I'm just trying to sort my way through a similar decision. Here in Australia it seems to be cheaper to get an external CD-RW. The upgrade price to an internal (8x4x24) CD-RW is around A$600 (i.e. around US$300), but for just under that I can get a La Cie USB/Firewire 16x10x40 drive with an 8Mb buffer and burn proof (buffer under-run protection) technology. How important is the buffer/ 'burn proof' feature? Is it less important for an internal drive than an external one? It seems to come down to a trade-off between the convenience of the internal drive vs the performance of the external one. Does anybody know about the performance of these drives? And would I use the DVD drive for anything more than playing movies? any thoughts or experiences would be much appreciated John -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
