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DVD-burner for G4 DP 500?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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What would be the best item and procedure for replacing internal DVD Ram Matshita with a dvd burner that will be able to use finder burn functions and apps (itunes,Imovie,etc.)
Thanks for the help.
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Do some research at www.xlr8yourmac.com in the Drive Compatibility Database They have a bunch of great reference material about upgrades of this kind with people's testimonials. Put in your machine and the drive you are thinking about. You can then buy and install whatever meets your budget and any other pertinent criteria. Check out patchburn also since it helps native programs recognize your burner.
You can also do research on the net to discover the drive install steps for your tower.
I personally installed LG 4160 DVD burner with DVDRAM capabilities which works like a charm. You might get an OEM Sony or Pioneer also.
Good luck
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Mini Intel Core Duo 1.66, 1.5ram, super, 17" CRT Cinema Display, Intuos 3 tablet
G4 PB 1ghz 15", 60gb, 256ram, super, Wifi
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Thanks Spork, I just ordered the Pioneer 111d OEM - I will swap out the Matshita DVD-RAM that came with the machine, then figure out how to enable using patchburn. I will read that link also someone mentioned flashing the drive but I'm not sure what that is. If it only pertains to region free stuff then I won't mess with it. This exercise is mostly to use Imovie, idvd, Toast and whatever else for video transfers and slideshows. Any inexpensive slideshow apps would be nice to hear about. I see Idvd can do it with limited transition options but a nice feature is burning original files to the DVD also. Hello, Tangent, when did you get here.
Sorry, thanks for the info.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Yeah, there are a whole bunch of different drives that Apple supports as native, and a whole bunch more that work with patchburn www.patchburn.de
Native supported is generally Matshita/Hitachi, Pioneer, Sony, or LG
Pioneer 107 is the best for single layer DVD burning (no need for patching on 10.3 or 10.4). Pioneer 109 has native support on 10.4 (AFAIK). But patchburn will let you use the 110 and 111
10.4 lets you use a whole bunch of drives with iTunes etc, but for dual layer support in iDVD 5 you need a native supported drive or a patch. iDVD 6 is more relaxed.
And get your hands on Toast. It is better for burning data DVDs than OSX, 
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Power Mac G4 Digital Audio 533MHz 1.5GiB RAM, 2x 80Gb ATA HDDs, 320Gb SATA HDD, Radeon 9650 256MiB, Airport Extreme compatible PCI card, Zip 250, Pioneer 110, Firewire DVD burner, 21" CRT, Harmon Kardon Apple Pro Speakers, OS X 10.4.6
Powerbook Pismo G3 400MHz, 768MiB RAM, 80Gb HDD, AirPort Extreme PC Card, Bluetooth 1.1, DVD-ROM, OS X 10.4.6, Ubuntu 5.10, MacOS 9.2.2
To buy: RAM for Pismo, CPU upgrades
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