Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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Thank you for the updated info. I wasn't aware the limitation had been lifted, and frankly I'm surprised Apple took such a move, considering their past issues with hardware/software lock-in.
Oh and to clarify: iDVD was installed by default and would run on my Mac Mini, which didn't have a SuperDrive. However, I (obviously) couldn't burn my projects to DVD, even with an external burner. I never bothered trying iDVD in iLife '06.
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2005-11-10
iDVD seems to be a very complete and easy to use DVD mastering program. Its only drawback that I could imagine is that it is tied to an Apple-branded SuperDrive. To my knowledge, you cannot use it with non-Apple burners.
That's not true anymore. The iDVD that comes as part of iLife '06 is not tied to Apple's DVD burners. In fact, you can now install and use iDVD on Macs that don't even have DVD burners, which you couldn't do at all with the older versions of iDVD.