If you have the room for an internal drive, get one of those and save some money. I was able to purchase Panasonic's 4x8x internal SCSI drive a year and a half ago for $299 (compar…

Our LaCie drive (based on an ugly Sony mechanism) had been messing up left and right lately, no matter what kind of media we used. Then we started using Memorex gold discs, and it'…

although they are kind of pricey, Yamaha media really works well. I have never (knock on wood) had a coaster with a Yamaha CD-R.

Each floppy has to be named exactly what it is asking for. Rename the floppy to Install 1 and all will be well. You can also create floppy images using Disk Copy that will work. …

I did that and I got the message, " although this is the correct name it is not the correct disk. Any thing else?

Hi, I still need some help here. As I mentioned, I did the rename of the floppy and it didn't work. More importantly, however, why didn't it just read the file of the zip, and h…

(sigh) i have had this problem, it has been a long time ago and was a different software package of course... let's see if i can recall. it is a disk image problem, the images on…

I am not exactly sure what you mean by the disk image. But, at any rate this is what I am doing, I am using my iMac to download and unstuff any and all files that need to go to th…

Hey - i wanna buy a G4 imac with a superdrive and i was wondering how much time it took to burn a full length DVD. Anybody know? Also can you use the computer during this time? …

It's a 2x Burn Speed for DVDs. I think that means the 1 hour disc would take 30 minutes to burn. At $5 a disc, I wouldn't risk using the computer at the same time. That's an expen…

Head over to www.cd-recordable.com DVD-R's are $2.99 a piece....Even come with Jewel Cases and work GREAT in the new iMac! -Matt

I burned a full DVD in DVD Studio Pro the other day on a 933 G4 tower and it took about 50 minutes to render the disk and burn it.

Quote: It's a 2x Burn Speed for DVDs. I think that means the 1 hour disc would take 30 minutes to burn. I think 2x means that it will take twice the amount …

Quote: Originally posted by JLFanboy: <STRONG> I think 2x means that it will take twice the amount of time that a video runs to compress and burn it, i.e. a 1 hou…

Also, the DVD-RW drives in the new iMacs (104) do have Burn-Proof, so you should be OK to multitask. (this is straight from Pioneer's website.) -Matt

It sounds like no one who posted has actually burned a DVD. I've made two 40 minute home movie DVDs and they took 2-2.5 hours on an iMacG4/800 with nothing else running. You need…

After I posted the date kicked back to 6/1990 after the servers were down for a while. I'm posting again to bring the date current so people can continue to get to this post.

i have an iMac G4 800mhz and it takes me 30minutes to burn a 90minute dvd...however the time it takes to import and compress it is a b****.

Quote: 1x means as fast as the source, so 60 minutes is 60 minutes. 2x is twice as fast, or 30 minutes. This is why the number increases as newer models come out. By yo…

Right. He was talking about encoding time. It is about double what the source is. I find that as well. Here, we are talking about burn time and the speeds of the burner (1x, 2x…

My parents have an iMac DV. The bought it last November. It is the on with the CD-ROM in it not the DVD player. Anyways I am want to install OS X on that machine with 320MB of R…

yes, that machine will run OS X just dandy for them. It may be a little slow for you, but for them it should be fine. BTW: in case your wondering, yes your video card is suppor…

Thanks.

Quote: Originally posted by tsheley: <STRONG>My parents have an iMac DV. The bought it last November. It is the on with the CD-ROM in it not the DVD player. Any…

Me, too. All is cool.