On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, littlefeet wrote: > Hi Paula > My G4 AGP tower only has the 450 processor but I got a Lacie DVD > burner from ebay recently that works great plugged into the firewire > socket. The mac immediately recognised it and it appears in the > profile, . It works well with Toast Titanium 6 providing you don't try > to write at the fastest speed. And it only cost me £21. You may need > to go for a pre Lightscribe model If you go to the LaCie website and > look up the manuals and specs for past models, a pdf dowload will tell > you what the minimum size processor is for each model of burner. I was > limited by my processor but many more LaCie burners will work with > processors 600 Mhz or greater. There are always a few on ebay/ Good > luck > > > On Jan 30, 3:17 pm, [email protected] wrote: >> I was told that the LaCie with firewire will work on my G4. >> What other DVD writers will work and do I have to find one that works on >> firewire? >> >> Paula Hi Paula I have 3 iMac G3s, 6 G4s, 1 G5 and a MBP all use Pioneer drives, they are the best IMHO, I've had trouble with LaCie and Samsung especially the LightScribe models. For LightScribe I use 2 HPs. all my machines use Toast 6 to Toast 8. I use Mac DVD Ripper Pro for ripping. Hope this helps. BTW stick with Tiger on that machine if you expect to get good burns.
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