Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-17 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: At 2:28 AM -0500 2/17/05, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote: IIRC, you're putting this in a Lombard, right? Nope. Sorry, I guess I should have said. This is for a 1.5Ghz P4 w/ 1Gb RAM. So this is for a Windo

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-17 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
At 2:28 AM -0500 2/17/05, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote: IIRC, you're putting this in a Lombard, right? Nope. Sorry, I guess I should have said. This is for a 1.5Ghz P4 w/ 1Gb RAM. So this is for a Windows notebook using a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4? Go with an ex

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-17 Thread Larry le Mac
From: "Andrew F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Get the internal, it is SO nice to have everything integrated. Disagree, get the external and you can use it with any Mac. Larry _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://se

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew
Then get the external. Personnaly, I like slick! Andrew On 17 Feb 2005 at 3:04, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:42 AM, Andrew wrote: > > > Cheaper and faster, but not anywhere near as slick. > > I'm not really looking for slick, I'm looking for a workhorse. > > And we're not

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-17 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:42 AM, Andrew wrote: Cheaper and faster, but not anywhere near as slick. I'm not really looking for slick, I'm looking for a workhorse. And we're not talking about minor differences. 8x vs 16x is an appreciable difference. $100-$150 vs $280 is an appreciable difference. N

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-16 Thread Andrew
Cheaper and faster, but not anywhere near as slick. Andrew On 17 Feb 2005 at 2:28, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote: > > > IIRC, you're putting this in a Lombard, right? > > Nope. Sorry, I guess I should have said. This is for a 1.5Ghz P4 w/ > 1Gb R

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-16 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote: IIRC, you're putting this in a Lombard, right? Nope. Sorry, I guess I should have said. This is for a 1.5Ghz P4 w/ 1Gb RAM. I'm actually looking at getting an *internal* drive and putting it in an external enclosure. Will be a lot cheaper than

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Hubatka
On Feb 16, 2005, at 6:59 PM, G-Books wrote: From: Timothy Luoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SuperDrive Dilemma Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:48:40 -0500 I'm trying to decide between MCE Lucid-M8X 8x DVD=B1R/RW + 2.4x Double Layer Portable FireWire Drive http://www.mcetech.com/lucidm8x.ht

Re: SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-16 Thread Andrew F.
Get the internal, it is SO nice to have everything integrated. Andrew On 2/16/05 5:48 PM, "Timothy Luoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to decide between > > MCE Lucid-M8X 8x DVD±R/RW + 2.4x Double Layer Portable FireWire Drive > http://www.mcetech.com/lucidm8x.html > $279 > > a

SuperDrive Dilemma

2005-02-16 Thread Timothy Luoma
I'm trying to decide between MCE Lucid-M8X 8x DVD±R/RW + 2.4x Double Layer Portable FireWire Drive http://www.mcetech.com/lucidm8x.html $279 and MCE 8X SuperDrive Upgrade for PowerBook G4 with Double Layer Support http://www.mcetech.com/pbg4dvdr8dl.html $249 Obviously the portable Firewire one coul