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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When the CD-ROM on a Power Mac G4 733 Mhz died, we went to a PC only store picked up the cheapest "Superdrive" we found, a Medion one :-? which happened to be built by Pioneer, slid it into the tower powered on and everything worked like a charm. There's only the minor that iTunes does not indeed allow recording, which I just realized after reading this, since we use Toast for recording everything. That does not make Apple less pathetic in that iTunes and Finder loose that feature; I agree that Apple should fix it (considering that Patchburn only changes some text files (or so I have read).
Maybe we were lucky, maybe pretty much any ATA optical drive works with a Mac (iTunes and Finder aside). In any case, we never thought of calling Apple to ask them what to do about our died CD-ROM. We just found it natural to go out, buy a new non-Apple one and expect it to work.