Linked by Dan Welch on Thu 30th Dec 2004 08:50 UTC
This holiday season I was given some Christmas money, and I wanted to purchase a DVD burner for my G4 Apple Macintosh computer. When I purchased my computer, I was wise in buying a tower since they are upgradeable, right? WRONG!
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Here's my 2p.
Apple subsidizes software such as iMovie and iDVD by requiring you to buy a machine with a SuperDrive to get the full use our of them. I ran into this problem on my original TiBook. I used a patch which allowed me to save the iDVD output to a file. I then moved the file over to a older G4 Tower with a SD, but unfortunately it was too slow to to be practical.
Considering the troubles we all had over the years with Windows and even Linux in the early years, I decided that if I am going to play in Apple's sandbox, I will follow the house rules.
So, a few years later I purchased a 17" PowerBook with a SD and an external LaCie 8X DVD-R. The internal SD still sux, but I am very happy with LaCie. I also upgraded from the iMovie & iDVD beginner apps to Final Cut & DVD Pro. Life is better if you don't cut corners
Apple motto: Our sandbox, our rules.
Microsoft motto: Buy any-old-crap and put our software on it.
Linux motto: If it don't work, write it.