--- Ian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But only for short-term use, if you are backing up much stuff or > archiving then HDs are just going to cost too > much. And would you > really trust it to be uncorrupted when you > connect it up five years > later? Drives are much handier, but also much > more fragile, dropping a > DVD in a case is not going to have the same > catastrophic effect as > dropping the external drive. > > In other words, short-term backup on a drive > yes, but for longer term > backup DVD or tape is likely to work out much cheaper and more reliable.
this is shocking news. i thought tape was the worst. > At the moment there ARE no other practical > options for video if you > want to play it on a computer. There are a lot of people out there who > don't have broadband access, and even if they do it'll take a day or > two to download a DVD-quality movie. thanks for the info & advice. looks like buying the built in DVD burner is a good investment. the Powerbook page is confusing in that you can get a $2600 SuperDrive 15" or a $2000 ComboDrive 15". then the $2000 model gives you the option of getting the SuperDrive drive for $200 more. same term on different logical levels. nor is it clear that the extra $200 buys iDVD... then there are all of the external DVD burners from $100 to $1000. more to learn. it never stops, does it? ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
