Re: CD-RW Burner for Mac Laptop

["Stephen Goodman" <sgoodman@earthlight.net>]

Watch for USB 2.0 as it's supposed to supply a bigger throughput than the
present spec.  Kim probably knows this one on a more tech level.  I went
through a good deal of trouble with an EIDE CDRW drive earlier this year
(though on a PC, I think the problems are cross-platform in this regard);
the IDE CDRW drives and the USB ones made earlier this year don't run too
well on a machine with a bus faster than 66MHz, without disabling some
aspect of bus mastering - which of course makes a fast machine seem like
otherwise.

As one PC reader quipped last week, "most of the devices I see made for USB
are translucent blue," so perhaps you've got more hope for resolution in 
the
USB realm.  But I wonder about the aspect of USB 2.0, so it's worth
investigating.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Witters <seanwitters@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 09:31
Subject: Re: CD-RW Burner for Mac Laptop


> I'm going to purchase a CD-RW burner.  I'm using a 400Mhz Powerbook G3,
I'm
> assuming that because this is a laptop I'll have to get a USB interfaced
> burner.  I'm new to the CD-Burner realm, any suggestions?  Please keep 
>the
> answers mac oriented.  Thanks, Sean
>
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