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15 AlBook To superdrive or not to superdrive?
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Hey everyone I need you guys opinions on my purchase. I currently own a 867 quicksilver with superdrive in the 2 years i have owned it i have only used the super drive for backup. I plan on buying a new 15 inch and selling the desktop so do you guys think i should get the superdrive in the laptop or should i go with the combo bump up the hd to 5400rpm and if i need a dvd-r buy an external when the time comes?
This is my order so far:
PowerBook 1.25GHz (15.2" TFT)
80GB Ultra ATA drive @ 5400 rpm
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 1 SO-DIMM
AirPort Extreme Card
$2,209.00
Kensington Saddlebag with Apple Logo
$39.99
APP for PowerBook
$239.99
20GB iPod
$369
So superdrive or not to superdrive?
Thanks all in advance,
Brian
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Originally posted by betoranaldi:
Hey everyone I need you guys opinions on my purchase. I currently own a 867 quicksilver with superdrive in the 2 years i have owned it i have only used the super drive for backup. I plan on buying a new 15 inch and selling the desktop so do you guys think i should get the superdrive in the laptop or should i go with the combo bump up the hd to 5400rpm and if i need a dvd-r buy an external when the time comes?
This is my order so far:
PowerBook 1.25GHz (15.2" TFT)
80GB Ultra ATA drive @ 5400 rpm
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 1 SO-DIMM
AirPort Extreme Card
$2,209.00
Kensington Saddlebag with Apple Logo
$39.99
APP for PowerBook
$239.99
20GB iPod
$369
So superdrive or not to superdrive?
Thanks all in advance,
Brian
If you can afford it get it... at worst it well help down the line when you want to sell it...
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Mallrat makes a good point about resale value.
Personally though I'd consider carefully if you really do need to record onto DVDs. iDVD and 4+ GB data storage is very cool, but a lot of people just don't use them, so they're carrying around something that:
1) cost them extra to buy
2) writes normal CD-Rs (which everyone uses a lot more) slower
But iDVD is very cool and it doesn't work with externals...
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From my standpoint, I don't need it..
Don't bother with it, besides it's $200 that will only give you about $20 more resale value in the future.
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yea im kinda torn becuase yes the superdrive will increase resale value ( thats how i will get a decent price on my powermac 867) but i can get an external if needed for only $50 more and have 4x +/- burning speed which i can use on another computer.
so i really dont no what i am going to do probably go with the faster hard drive instead of the superdrive...
Thanks
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Originally posted by betoranaldi:
yea im kinda torn becuase yes the superdrive will increase resale value ( thats how i will get a decent price on my powermac 867) but i can get an external if needed for only $50 more and have 4x +/- burning speed which i can use on another computer.
so i really dont no what i am going to do probably go with the faster hard drive instead of the superdrive...
Thanks
The superdrive is extremely handy. iDVD is great, but a non-issue if you don't have a DV camera. Still, it's great to put family photos and such on a DVD.
Unless you prepare all your documents as plain text and your images as postscript, you NEED a superdrive for backups. Get it now. It will be built in and you'll have it when you need it.
Either that or forego the superdrive and bump up that 20GB iPod to the 40!
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I am a graphic designer and i work with large files wether it be images / documents layout, I dont think the faster drive will increase the performance all that much will it? so i will stick with the lower drive and get the superdrive, i think it now burns cd-r at 16x if i am correct, please correct me if i am wrong.
I love this board and i would like to thank you all for your opionions it is truly helpful
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I don't need no stinkin' signature!
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by betoranaldi:
...i think it now burns cd-r at 16x if i am correct, please correct me if i am wrong....
Here's something from Apple's site:
* Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW): reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 10x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
* SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW): writes DVD-R discs at up to 2x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 4x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
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12" Powerbook 1.5GHz/SuperDrive, 1.25GB Ram, 80GB HD, Airport Extreme, Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger
iBook (Late 2001)600MHz/Combo, 640MB RAM, 20GB HD, Airport, Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther — web server
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