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Whoa, Should I have gotten the Super Drive?
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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With the release of iPhoto 2 it occured to me, should I have ordered the Super drive with my 1.25?! Will I be able to burn my images to disk to share with others on a pc without it, or is it primarily used for movies? 
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Originally posted by Meadowfield:
With the release of iPhoto 2 it occured to me, should I have ordered the Super drive with my 1.25?! Will I be able to burn my images to disk to share with others on a pc without it, or is it primarily used for movies?
You can burn photos onto a CD-R too, which should easily fit a few hundred and if your sharing photos you're probally only sharing the good ones  . Only people who take and keep alot of pictures will probally need a DVD-R.
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Originally posted by Meadowfield:
With the release of iPhoto 2 it occured to me, should I have ordered the Super drive with my 1.25?! Will I be able to burn my images to disk to share with others on a pc without it, or is it primarily used for movies?
combo drive will burn cd-r backups of photos.
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Yeah, that's not a problem. You only need a superdrive to burn DVD's, Photos you can burn onto a CDR. Infact, most people with PC's still probably don't have dvd on their machines anyway so a regular CD may even be the best options. You could burn to dvds too, but that is a lot of photos, if you can get your CD media for$.30 a piece, then if would be cheaper than a dvd too. The superdrive is great not just for movies, but also for back up of large amounts of data. You don't need it for photos, but it's a nice feature. Oh, if you wanted to make an interactive DVD with photos, then yeah, I think you need the superdrive.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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Thanks guys!
Originally posted by slider:
The superdrive is great... for back up of large amounts of data.
But I can do that with the Combo too, right? As long as my data doesn't include dvd material? How about quicktime movies?
Paul
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Meadow, calm down:
combo drives burn CD-R and CD-RW only. The max capacity is 700mb on those disks.
Superdrives can not only burn CD-R and CD-RW, but DVD-R as well. A DVD-R disk can hold 4.7gb.
You *CAN* burn video CDs but the quality will not be as good and you can only have so much.
The cool thing about DVD-Rs is you can make picture slideshows and play them on dvd players 
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Yeah man you'll be fine...home movies in .mpeg, .mpg2, .mov, etc. will do fine on standard 80 minute (700 MB) CD's...the only need for a SuperDrive is if you wanna make DVD's, and for home movies, it's definitely not necessary. Storing photos is a sinch on CD-R's as well, and you can fit a TON of photos on one CD, and since you can get dozens of blank CD-R's so cheap, you can load up on as many as you need. 
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