[Circa]

What do you all recommend?

Thanks,
Circa

[Circa]

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[Justin Morgan]

This is a subject that has been discussed to death, and so people are probably tired of discussing it. You might try the Forums' search function, there is plenty in there.

I bought a Formac 16/10/40 last week and I'm happy with it. It runs on bus power (if you have a desktop Mac), so you don't have to hook up a wall wart power supply to it, which is nice. There is a good online review of the 12/10/32 version of the Formac CDRW at xlr8yourmac.com.

The Formac drive also looks very good next to a Cube.

[Circa]

I will do a search, but hopefully someone will still make some comments or even post a pic of their drive. Which in essense would be a real treat.

[Cipher13]

Yamaha CRW2100 "lightspeed" - 16*10*40.

[PowerBookDude]

Why don't you just wait a while and get a new 24x burner?

LaCie is coming out with one.

[Justin Morgan]

opefully someone will still make some comments or even post a pic of their drive. Which in essense would be a real treat.

Here is my Formac drive in action. You can see iTunes playing on the screen:




Sorry it's not a close-up picture of the CD-RW, but at least it gives you a sense of scale. Left to right, it's a G4 Cube, Formac 16/10/40 CD-RW FireWire, Harmon-Kardon SoundSticks (the sub is behind the monitor), Apple 22" Cinema Display, Adesso ergo keyboard, and Belkin mouse.

EZQuest, Formac, LaCie, and others will be coming out with 24X burners in the next month or so. They will burn a disk in about 4 minutes instead of 6 (as with a 16X), but you will pay an additional $100 or so.

[Duo]

Thats a very nice price for the Formac CDRW drives.

Duo

[kaceygones]

Wow, Justin. What a set up!
That's beautiful.
Sure makes mine look cluttered.
(Too embarrassed now to show it.)

kacey

P.S. I have the Yamaha 16x10x40 that I got for $285.
It works great and 6 minutes is perfectly acceptable for me.

[Circa]

24x hmm makes me wonder if I should wait.

BTW your picture screwed the formatting up royally. But thats ok its nice to see a setup really big. And in the case of this thread I really am impressed. So your drive will burn and audio or data disc in like 6 minutes?

thanks..

[Justin Morgan]

Hi,
I haven't timed it exactly, but my Formac 16/10/40 seems to take roughly 5 or 6 minutes to burn a full audio cd at 16x, and about 8 minutes to rewrite a cd (at 10x). This includes the time to open/close the session. Note that iTunes usually takes a while to prepare the tracks for burning, this is in addition to the 5 minutes required to burn the disc.

So far I haven't done much w/ data discs yet. I'll be really happy when Mac OS X can natively burn data cd's (via Toast or whatever).

Btw, thanks for the compliments about my setup. Sorry if the image size screwed up your formatting.

Good luck w/ whatever drive you decide to go with.

[Circa]

Justin one more question do you find that in os x your icons look more bulky and stuff? Does it feel like you have lost some screen space?