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What DVD-R drive is in the iMac G5?
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What DVD-R drive is in the iMac G5?
Does anyone know? If one were to purchase the Combo and want to upgrade to a DVD-R, I want to know if it is a notebook type drive or a regular drive.
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It's a Panasonic UJ-825-B. You can find they at new egg They are the only company that manufactures slot loading drives anymore. You'll have to do a firmware update to get it to work. Personally, I'd just swing for the 1.8, it'll be less of a hastle in the end.
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It is highly unlikely that a firmware update would be necessary (as in, I'm 99.999% sure it'd just work).
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From a customer review on new egg.
"This drive is great. I got it for my 12" powerbook. I had to install new firmware to make it compatible with it but other than that smooth installation. It burns dvd's fast. Burning cd's is a little slower than it was with the combo drive but for the price it was well worth it. I would recomend this drive for pc laptops as well. The slot loading is awesome."
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Would you believe someone who posts some review on NewEgg. Or an Admin with six thousand plus posts? Gotta give Tooki more props than that...
I bought the Panasonic Combo Slot slim drive from NewEgg. Slid it into my Pismo, it's OEM out of the box. Burns, boots and reads natively. No nada need be done.
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Originally posted by buffalolee:
What DVD-R drive is in the iMac G5?
Does anyone know? If one were to purchase the Combo and want to upgrade to a DVD-R, I want to know if it is a notebook type drive or a regular drive.
Thanks. I didn't know if it was a notebook drive or a regular 5.25" drive. It looks like that one from Panasonic can write DVD-RAM for those that who care.
I was thinking about getting the iMac G5 17" without the optical drive, and install the combo for myself.
$1,099 + 135 = 1,234 for an iMac G5 with SuperDrive
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