I doubt you will see much effort being put into this (though iBook
owners would love it) until a G4 style chip is moved into the iBook
line.
The reason is that iDVD really benefits from the AltiVec part of the G4
design, and without it, making the MPEG-2 video for iDVD is very
time-consuming on an iBook (still do-able -- but time consuming).
Current rumors are speculating that Apple will use either the IBM Gobi
chip (IBM's version of the G4 -- the Gobi is a processor that is
verrrry close to the Motorola G4 except instead of calling the AltiVec
part AltiVec, it is called SIMD) or move the Motorola G4s to the iBook
line "soon" --- right after adopting the IBM PPC970 chip for the
PowerMacs, XServes, etc -- which we must note has not been confirmed as
happening by IBM nor by Apple. But if the Gobi option happens, we could
see someone releasing a retro-fitted DVD drive to fit the iBooks along
with a motherboard swap which will in essence be a chip swap because
the Gobi chip is pin compatible with the G3 that is in iBooks.
All of that being said, if 'ya just gotta have a DVD burner on the
iBook now, one of the external FireWire ones, along with some X11 style
software will allow you make DVD videos, but it does take a while to do
this. The idea is that you make a DVD disk image on the iBook's hard
drive, make the video placing the output in the disk image, then burn
the completed image to DVD.
If on the other hand, you have no interest in making DVDs and just want
to burn data DVDs, the burner will work fine as is, it just is external
and no one has released a way to shoehorn an internal burner into the
iBook case.
Jerry
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Kelly Svarstad wrote:
> Is there a way to retro-fit (speaking of) a SuperDrive into an iBook?
> the creative minds hard at work at Apple need to do this.
>
> -KRS
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