[ulmer]

The tech specs online say 16x. The developers doc says 8x. 8x would be just sad...especially since it'll do 2x DVD-R now. Can anyone with a new one verify what it'll really do?

Thanks,
Brian

[dennis88]

It will do 16x, that's what the specs say on apple.com

"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"

[Cop Rock]

Originally posted by dennis88:
It will do 16x, that's what the specs say on apple.com

"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"

Ummm, the first poster said the main specs at apple.com claim 16x but the developer documentation claims 8x as shown below:

http://developer.apple.com/documenta...0868/TPXREF114

As an aside, I hadn't noticed before that the DVD-R and DVD-ROM read speeds are different.