G-5 List wrote: >Thanks Mick, that was my point. And I don't like spending the extra >money for an external when almost all semi current home computers >(short of notebooks and i/eMac have room for two optical drives.
Never been bothered too much be Apple's traditional lack of great internal peripheral expandability. In most cases that extra space would be wasted, making all of us PAY for the unused capacity that few require/desire. I chuckle at all the PCs with mostly-unused or blank plates on the front. I'm sure that if Apple had more market share they'd have something in a bigger case with extra space... As an owner of several Macs I often find it more economical to share an external burner or drive than buy them for each ... but then again if I had a new G5 I doubt I'd seldom turn any of the rest on... >Not that I have ever done this but from what I would gather wouldn't >you copy the DVD data to the harddrive. Place a blank DVD into the >drive and burn? You need some extraction software for ripping DVDs, which may become more popular on the G5 given that Steve mentioned today that the new model can transfer an entire DVD, if wholly held in RAM, in a few seconds. I can't even imagine such transfer speed ... I'm lucky if I can connect two Macs at fast Ethernet. -David -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
