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New combo drive and DVD-RAM??
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Surbiton Surrey UK
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I see on the apple website the following for the slot loading combo drive .....
"Slot-loading DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive
The PowerBook G4�s slot-loading DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive plays CD-ROM, audio CD, DVD video, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM discs."
Can I really load DVD-RAM disks cut on my 500Duel ... and run them off the Ti .. or am I dreaming, Apple taking the ****, and I'm going to have to go for the DVD-R upgrade lock stock and barrel ... :-(
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Phil the Fish
15" PowerBook 1.5GHz, SuperDrive, 5400rpm 80GB, IGB RAM/128MB VRAM
PM G4 D500 1.25GB RAM, 40GB HD
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<eh nope>
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I think Apple is talking about the DVD cartridges from which you can extract the disc from the caddy.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Pleasanton, CA
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As "eh nope" said, you will need to take the DVD-RAM disk out of its casing to play it on the drive.
DVD-RAM is a dying standard. I haven't seen many DVD-RAM drives become mainstream. Apple tried with its Power Mac line, but nothing really ever took off.
However, DVD-RW/DVD+RW are something we'll see a lot of in the next two years. As the prices drop, more people will have the hardware to read the media. Burners will eventually come down to the $300 range, and we'll see an influx of writable DVD media that you can play on every consumer DVD player (including computer DVD players) out there.
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