With iTunes you can use just about any cdrom drive in your mac now. While I
have yet to find a non cd drive burner for my mac I do have iTunes and do
like it.
Bruce
My Mac PM7600 w/G3-400mhz upgrade(joecard),896 meg ram. OS 9.1/9.2.1 hybrid
> From: "Ben Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs)
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:52:25 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs)
> Subject: Recordable CD-Rom in PowerMac
>
> Since my main machine is a PC, I'm trying to stay on a budget while I
> upgrade my PowerMac 7600/233. I'd like to get a CD-R installed, but I'm
> waffling over whether to get an old internal or more expensive external scsi
> model.
>
> What's the deal with "non-mac" CD-ROMs? I've heard you can't boot from them,
> but I never boot from the CD anyway. Would it be possible to buy a cheap,
> recordable CD drive and just keep the old Macintosh drive in storage for the
> rare situation when I need to boot from a CD?
>
> BTW, the drive I'm looking at is an old Smart & Friendly 2006 4x writeable.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Ben Austin
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