[bohdanz]

Finally, I noticed Iomega's online store (and no where else) is listing the ZipCD for Mac as available. (Whether that means weeks of waiting they don't say.)

But as I'm needing a CD-RW wonder if anyone has one, tried one, hart about the actual worth of it.
Thanks.

[mahk]

Thanks for the post! I'm also interested if anyone else has bought/is using this drive. Seems like a decent bargain for the money, even if it is a little slower.

Hi there, I bought and received it this week....contrary to adverts it didn't come with any Mac software. Talked to a Mac technician and he got it working but it took parts of Toast 2,3 and 4 to see the writer... I didn't feel like paying for all three versions. I'm in Canada so the software - after talking to Iomega - is supposedly available in about a month. Sent it back, still shopping.

[mahk]

Aditya Bhasin sent an update on his experience with the Iomega ZipCD, a $279.95 USB CD-RW drive:

"In followup to my discussions with Iomega last week re: the ZipCD 650 USB, I received the Iomega USB software (v2.5) in the mail from Iomega (they just sent it to me, without even verifying that I had the drive!), and purchased the drive at CompUSA (in the Windows 98 box) for $275.

I installed onto a Rev. A iMac running OS 9.04. The Iomega USB software comes with Toast OE v4.0.1.1. I updated this to v.4.0.2 with no problems. With the drive plugged into the lower USB port on the mac (Toast reports this as USB #2) I have successfully burned a few discs at 4x speed. Despite the markings on the box, the 8x speed is not available, but at 17minutes for 650MB, who's complaining ?! In one of the burns, I got a disc verification error at the end, but the disc seems to be fine, and Disk First Aid verified the disc as OK. I am using Sony CD-R media. Note that I made no extension changes to the system...and virtual memory was on. All I did was turn energy saver off."

[bohdanz]

Mahk,

Thanks for your first-hand report on the ZipCD.

I continue to find it odd that Iomega makes this big announcement about their "Mac" version being out. They didn't have it available for at least a week after that announcement on their very own web order site.

And then to deal with the problems as you've had to do is weird. They should get their act together.

I got the 250 Zip drive... and am thinking of returning it only because I think for the extra $100 or so I may as well as a CD-RW. I can easily transfer all my existing 100 Zips onto a few CDs. And then ... I want to burn my own audio ones!!

Bohdan