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Saturday September 06, 2003

PowerBook G4 SuperDrive Upgrade

SuperDrive Upgrade I recently purchased a "SuperDrive" for my PowerBook from MacResQ. Here's the specs on this bad boy:

The PowerBook G4 SuperDrive upgrade is bootable and compatible with Apple's Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, iDVD, iTunes, Disc Burner, Apple DVD Player, Toast, and Retrospect. The drive reads at 24x, writes CD-R at 16x, writes CD-RW at 8x, and writes DVD-R/RW at 1x. A 1-year warranty applies.

Sounds pretty sweet right? To create a DVD (that Julie created in iMovie), we need to purchase iLife, which includes iDVD (which iMovie integrates nicely with, so I've heard). The problem? I went to the Apple Store today to buy iLife and I asked them about this DVD burner. They said that any third-party DVD burner will not work with iDVD. And if it does, it's illegal. So I asked, "If this DVD burner works with iDVD, who's breaking the law?" The tech retorted that both MacResQ is (for selling it) and I am (violation of the license of iDVD). Bummer. Do I care? Not really - I just want to know if iDVD will work with this drive?

If so, I'll buy iLife and be a happy little DVD-burning, software violating mo-fo - just like all the corporate workers who've installed their company's copy of Office on their home machine.

Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 06 2003, 05:22:35 PM MDT 4 Comments
Comments:

As far as I know the last release of iDVD broke compatablity with 3rd party DVD-R drives. Apple said they were voliation of the their terms and refused to do anything about it. I think some of the third party companies found a firmware way around it and sent out firmware updates several months after Apple's update. I don't know if I would recommend a third party solution but it does kind of stink that Apple is pulling this right now.

Posted by Kurt on September 06, 2003 at 11:59 PM MDT #

I just sent an e-mail to the folks at MacResQ (with a link to this post). I don't expect a response until Monday, but I do plan on returning the product if it doesn't work with iDVD or iMovie.

Posted by Matt Raible on September 07, 2003 at 03:20 AM MDT #

According to this article, which was written in August 2003, it looks like this drive <strong>will</strong> work with the latest iDVD. <em>Cool!</em>

Posted by Matt Raible on September 08, 2003 at 02:43 AM MDT #

Well.... Technically, I'm not sure those restrictions in the license are legal... those companies tend to put stuff in there that isn't legal in many countries

Posted by Yannick Menager on September 08, 2003 at 12:07 PM MDT #

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