[GeoMac]

The specs on apple's super drive leave a little be desired in my opinon considering it's a $200 price increase and I can but a much faster DVD-RW/+RW drive aftermarket for just a little bit more. My question is will it be possible or difficult to change the drive? Is there some propriart contraption connected to the outer door that slides down, that may not be compatible with other drives?

FYI, the drive I was specifically thinking of is tthe new plextors that has the following specs, which I believe most of the dvd writing specs are double the Mac's:

Data Transfer Rate: Burst (UDMA/33) 33MB/s
Writing DVD+R: 8x, DVD-R: 4x , CD-R: 40x
Rewriting DVD+RW: 4x , DVD-RW: 2x , CD-RW: 24x
Reading DVD-ROM: 12x , CD-ROM: 40x

link here:

Plextor Drive

[curtlivingston]

getting idvd to work with that could be an issue. (i am lead to believe)

[proton]

The SuperDrive in my G5 is a Sony DVD RW DW-U10A. It's specs are:

CD Rewrite Speed
10 X (CD,CD-R)

CD Write Speed
24 X (CD,CD-R)

CD-ROM Read Speed
40 X (CD,CD-R)

DVD+R Speed
2.5 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD+RW Speed
2.5 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD-R Speed
4 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD-ROM Read Speed
12 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD-RW Speed
2.4 X (DVD, DVD-R)


Just a FYI.

- proton

[GeoMac]

Originally posted by proton:
The SuperDrive in my G5 is a Sony DVD RW DW-U10A. It's specs are:

CD Rewrite Speed
10 X (CD,CD-R)

CD Write Speed
24 X (CD,CD-R)

CD-ROM Read Speed
40 X (CD,CD-R)

DVD+R Speed
2.5 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD+RW Speed
2.5 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD-R Speed
4 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD-ROM Read Speed
12 X (DVD, DVD-R)

DVD-RW Speed
2.4 X (DVD, DVD-R)


Just a FYI.

- proton

yeah, that's what I thought. My feeling is that if I could, I'd rather save the $200 going toward it and buy a 3rd gen DVD righter instead of the one apple provides. Just don't know if it's swappable, and I can't tell from the pics. So really there's two issues, one, can it physically be swapped, and two, will it work with panther?

[Commodus]

The main reason you can do better now is because Apple had to finalize the specs on the G5s before they started assembling them. The 8X DVD-RW and DVD+RW drives were only really announced awhile after Apple had introduced the G5. I'm sure that Apple wants such a drive, but that they'll have to hold off until the second G5 revision.

In the meantime, I would leave the Superdrive in the G5 config if I was intent on burning DVDs in any of the iApps. It's not exactly a heartbreak to burn CDs at 24X, and if you need a way to burn discs without copying their content to the hard drive you could probably get an external DVD drive for relatively little.

[WizOSX]

Anyone successfully write a +RW disk with Panther?
Successfully play it in some other environment--a stand alone DVD player or Windows PC?

[WizOSX]

Hasn't anyone successfully written to a +RW disk with Panther? Unsuccessfully?

[jasonsRX7]

Originally posted by WizOSX:
Hasn't anyone successfully written to a +RW disk with Panther? Unsuccessfully?

I've burned a +RW with the Pioneer 106D in my G5 1.6. Burned it in Toast, no issues.

Edit: Successfully, and in Panther, BTW