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Hawkeye_a · Jul 20, 2001, 09:06 PM

if anyone has recieved the free VST CDRW, using the Apple PowerBook G4 offer, please post your thoughts here, it would be greatly appreciated.

Blake Bowden · Jul 20, 2001, 09:56 PM

I sent my stuff off 2 weeks ago...nuttin. Of course it says up to 10 weeks delivery I belive.

Hawkeye_a · Jul 21, 2001, 01:03 PM

what speed is this VST drive supposed to be anyway ?

Blake Bowden · Jul 21, 2001, 03:39 PM

a ho hum 4x

Ryu · Jul 21, 2001, 04:38 PM

Originally posted by Blake Bowden:
a ho hum 4x

Where do they get it? Do we still sell such thing?

Hawkeye_a · Jul 21, 2001, 06:58 PM

good question. lol. whats a 4X burner ? im not sure such things ever existed.

Ryu · Jul 21, 2001, 07:24 PM

Without any doubt, Apple announced this promotion to compensate the fact that consumers' iBook has a combo-drive while Ti doesn't. The thing is that internal burner is a lot expensive. If Apple was going to do the job properly by offering an external drive, it should propose something like 12x at least. What the heck is 4x?

hoopla2000 · Jul 22, 2001, 12:40 AM

Hope they will at least start giving away faster drives like ryu mentioned. I doubt they will get to squeeze a combo drive in a Ti book anytime soon. If they hadn't go slot loading,we shouldve got a Ti with a combo drive, at the cost of gaining a bit of thickness.

I can't understand why Apple decided to use a slot loading drive for iMac,only not to be able to offfer a combo drive for such a long time.

Does a slot loading drive cost LESS or MORE to make? If it cost more,which I think is quite likely,why on earth Apple went with that?
hm... It's not kool to lose so much only to be different... I guess.

Unless Apple intentionally did half-arse with the development of iMac,it's almost unthinkable to me they can pull it off on a Ti book.
If Apple wants their macs to be a "digital hub", I don't see any reason for them not to add a combo drive to a most selling mac.

Ryu · Jul 22, 2001, 05:50 AM

It's simple... if it isn't cool, it isn't Apple.

Seriously, design counts a lot to Apple and it seems like that Apple didn't expect such delay for combo-drive. I think when they first shipped it with iMac, they assumed that all the optical drives will change to slot-loading instead of tray loading. Well... wrong.

Anyway, we will see what happens in Paris.[/LIST]

milhaus · Jul 22, 2001, 10:00 AM

You might want to confirm the speed. As far as I know, it's an 8X burner, not a 4x one. The reason you may not have gotten it is that VST has yet to release the silver/ice ones, which are new, and I think, the higher speed. This is faster than the speed on the iBook combo drive.

Lolo from Paris · Jul 22, 2001, 10:41 AM

Yes, it's a x8 burner...

By the way, there is no x12 burner as small as the VST or Freecom ones.

x12 burners are far bigger and they need power supply too...x8 is fast enough for back up on the road.

Hawkeye_a · Jul 22, 2001, 12:51 PM

to the best of my knowledge, internal drive are cheaper than external ones, i mean you can get a 12X10X32 internal drive for PCs for less than $100, where as the external 8X4X32 are just under $200. im not sure about laptops.
As far as the iBook goes i think it has an 8X burner(R , not sure about RW), and it's got DVD.
i think combo drives in quicksilver are 8X8X8X24 (RXRWXDVDxCD).

Ryu · Jul 22, 2001, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
to the best of my knowledge, internal drive are cheaper than external ones, i mean you can get a 12X10X32 internal drive for PCs for less than $100, where as the external 8X4X32 are just under $200. im not sure about laptops.
As far as the iBook goes i think it has an 8X burner(R , not sure about RW), and it's got DVD.
i think combo drives in quicksilver are 8X8X8X24 (RXRWXDVDxCD).

Uh... I meant internal drives for notebooks and not desktops.

milhaus · Jul 22, 2001, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
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As far as the iBook goes i think it has an 8X burner(R , not sure about RW), and it's got DVD.
i think combo drives in quicksilver are 8X8X8X24 (RXRWXDVDxCD).

The iBook has a 8x CDRW, but the combo drive speeds are 4x4x6x24 (4x CD-R, 4x CD-RW, 6x DVD, 24x CD-ROM). The deal on the external CD-RW is better than getting the combo drive - that way you also have two drives to read from at once (enabling Disk Copy mode without hassle).