Does the G5 record to DVD-RW?

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WOPR Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: NORAD (England branch) Status: Offline	Sep 18, 2004, 01:35 AM
	The Apple site says this: "Optical drive bay with SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) installed; writes DVD-R discs at up to 8x speed, reads DVDs at up to 10x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 10x speed, reads CDs at up to 32x speed" It doesn't mention DVD-RW, yet others on this forum mention using them, and even DVD+R and DVD+RW disks. I'm not bothered about +RW but being able to use -RW would be useful. I just hope my G5 arrives on Monday so I can update my sig...
	 iMac Core 2 Duo 17" 2ghz 3gb/250gb \|\|  iBook G4 12" 1.33ghz 1gb/40gb