[hudson1]

I'm seriously thinking about retrofitting my 700MHz eMac (CDRW) with a SuperDrive as I now have a digital video camera. There seems to be be several claims that it can be done though it's a bit involved. Two questions for anyone:

Since I don't have Apple's DVD Player on my hard drive (I'm assuming it didn't install because it didn't detect a DVD player), can it be extracted from my Panther install disks?

Should I get Toast Titanium ($80), iLife 4 ($50 but "officially" requiring 733MHz for iDVD 4), or find iLife 3 on eBay (maybe $20 and use iDVD 3)? I'd like to go with iLife 4 as it will also upgrade iPhoto for me but some confirmation that the 733MHz floor isn't a deal-breaker would be nice to have.

I guess the other question would be Is this stupid - I should get an external burner instead? Not sure about the software situation if I go this route, though.

Thanks.

[tRr]

1. I've heard of people doing it, though I don't have any specifics off hand. 99.9% sure it's possible though.

2. Definitely take iDVD '04. I use a 466Mhz G4 and though I don't use iDVD often, it's still quite operable when I am using it (have lots of RAM and leave it encoding during the night...).

3. When I upgraded I went internal but that was mostly because of iDVD not supporting external burners. There is a hack out now which allows you to burn to external drives (among other things) with iDVD '04, but I haven't been following it's progress. If I had to decide again today, I'd probably still go internal (although your eMac is a lot harder to upgrade then my PowerMac G4 is) simply because of the cheaper price, no need for the portability and guaranteed compatibility with iDVD since it's the same drive Apple uses!