[DM-MUG] iMac G5 Superdrive Upgrade

[Bryan Baker]

iLife '05 also added a feature that lets you "burn" an image instead of 
a DVD which you can then burn multiple times, use third party burners, 
store on a backup drive, etc. I just about don't (or at least haven't) 
worked any other way since that came out. Real time saver (for me). I 
think it also added direct support to non-Apple drives, but not sure on 
that one - in any case burning to an image may be worth the price of 
iLife '05 for you - it's also a LOT faster to work w/. and has a much 
better feedback system when burning. It actually shows what stage you 
are in and thumbnails of the video as it's encoded. There's other great 
stuff in all the new iLife apps as well, and I'd say it's been the best 
performance boost I've seen in these apps in a while.

Details:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/


On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:48 AM, CW Smith wrote:
> On 8/12/05 7:03 AM, "kcrouch" <kcrouch at klccomputing.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm attempting to use OWC's Superdrive upgrade that I've been reading 
>> about,
>> but cannot always get DVDs burned through iDVD to play on DVD 
>> players. Has
>> anyone had experience with the upgrades for the iMac? I currently am 
>> running
>> 10.3.9 and iDVD 4.0.1. I don't want to have to put the original drive 
>> back
>> into the machine, but if I cannot get the new drive to work, it'll 
>> have to go
>> back. Any ideas out there?
>>
>> Kendall
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> Apple's iPrograms, like iTunes, iDVD, and others require a stock Apple 
> Combo
> Drive or SuperDrive, and don't support aftermarket drives (unless you
> replace with a model identical to Apple's stock drives).  There is a 
> way
> around this, however:
>
> PatchBurn is a firmware patch that fools your Mac into believing that 
> your
> aftermarket drive is in fact a stock Apple drive.  You can find it at:
>
> http://www.patchburn.de/download.html
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
> Peace,
> CW
>
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