[jagga]

Hi
I have a Rev. C imac with 32mb of RAM. I would like to know what CD-RW I should get? The QUE or the Sony SPRESSA. If anyone has bad/good experiences with any of these models, please reply.

Thanks

[Ca$h68]

Im pretty sure you can find your answer if you search the forums. Try taht first. I'm betting your other question will get a similar response from me.

Ca$h

[The Godfather]

I have a Sony Spressa 2x4x6 and I have no complaints about it. Personally, I don't know how to evaluate CDR drives but I must tell you that:
*You can get it for cheap in compgeeks.com
*I haven't wasted any CD media yet (I turned off my screen saver first, gave the burning app 60MB just make absolutely sure, no other apps running)
*I could not burn Audio CDs from MP3 in real time, they would burn awefully choppy. I had to convert them into AIFFs first (650MB!).
*It is compatible with Toast.
*You can open the case after your warranty expires

The Godfather

Ditto the Godfather above. I have the exact same remanufactured setup from compgeeks.com on a G3/300 with a USB PCI card and am completely satisfied. I haven't been so careful as Godfather about running Toast with nothing else running but in fifty or sixty burns haven't had any problems with boffing up the media. Zero, nada.

I bought it because I thought I'd be able to use it at work on a PC, too, but found out the hard way that Windows NT doesn't support USB. But I'd buy it again. 2x/4x/6x is definitely fast enough for what I use it for and it will be eminently reusable if/when I upgrade to a newer Mac.

has anyone used the Que usb drive? i have one and have problems sometimes when burning at 4X speed. has anyone else used this drive at 4X and been successful???


p.s. no problems at 2x

[Ca$h68]

Yeah, I do. They claim its a 4x burner, but they're full of **** . I've not had on successful 4x burn.... and TONS of successful 2x burn. Basically, Que is some stupid company that advertises it as a four x burner, but once you get it its actually a 2 x. I hate them. I wouldnt get anything from them again, I got gyped.

Ca$h

[wlonh]

lol, and it could not happen to a nicer guy than our little Gash68

[tsheley]

I have burned about 25 CDs with my QUE Drive at 4x with no problems. I am not a home now but when I am I will check my settings and post them.

G-Father (and others)
I'm surprised to read that you guys are having success with Toast. Which version. I attempted (with great anguish) to get Toast 4 to run on my DV SE with the Spressa Plus burner. I could never get it to load the extension. It always loaded with the red universal "no" sign through it. Please fill me in as to your total config. For one thing, do you load the apple CD extension?
Thanks,
Rick

I have the first generation of Spressa...I did many test with Discribe and Toast 4.0.

For Data I prefer Discribe; I didn't scrap my CD's with it. I can burn at 4X cd to cd or hd to cd (650 Mb or 700 MB). With Toast 4.0, just forget it...its so unreliable for data. With Data CD and Discribe the result is 100% of success !!!

But for Audio, Toast is the clear Winner, but for some CD you must write in 2X. In Discribe you can't write audio CD "CD to CD"...you must convert your audio first...I don't like that :-(

I think the big problem with USB burner is not the hardware, but the software and drivers!!! Expect new problems when MacOS X will be out...

In other words, CD-Burner are NOT user friendly, its so difficult to use if you compare it to a ZIP Drive...but the CD-R media is cheap and universal...

[NDBounce]

I've had problems with the Que! Drive...only successful at burning at 1X. Anyone who burns at 2-4X could you please tell me what your settings are? I'd greatly appreciate it (especially Tsheley).

Also I've had a problem with the power on the Que Drive (although this could be my iBook). Whenever I turn on/off the lightswitch in my room while burning, the USB connection becomes unstable. I've heard other unofficial reports of this, Que told me to upgrade to Toast 4.0 and I should be okay...I'm still waiting for them to send me the upgrade.

Could somebody burning 4x on Que drive please let us know how they are doing it.

i tried my friends que usb, and it was a waste of my imac's time. on older imacs and g3s, it could go only 2x. we thought that with the new usb controllers, maybe it would go 4x on my imac DV/SE. noooo, it still went 2x. my yamaha burner goes faster on my QUADRA than my imac with the que. oh well, guess ill wait for that firewire/scsi adapter...

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