I'm not telling you what to buy, good sir. I'm making a suggestion based on personal experience. If you are comfortable tinkering with your system disk, go for it. I'll tinker with hardware all day long. That stuff in my sig? I did that. Neither of us can hope to get tech help from Apple. That's why we subscribe to lists like this. To share experience and offer help if we can.
I'm glad you like USB for your devices other that input, cameras, and printers. In my own experience, USB 1.1 isn't good for anything else. I have a USB printer, camera, and scanner. No problems with them. I don't care for USB CD burners. Not the burner itself - the interface. The USB bus speed simply can't handle the load of 6x or higher burns. I will admit that my experience is limited. (I have tried to use a 4x4x6 Iomega ZipCD 650 USB. The device inside the box is simply an IDE CD burner on a USB/IDE brigde. It did not work well.) I have not tried FireWire or USB 2.0, so I can't say. I like my old tried and trusted SCSI interface. Don't mind paying extra for something that works. -- Power Macintosh 7500 450Mhz Sonnet G3 w/1MB BSC 512MB RAM 18GB hard drive 4GB hard drive 12x CD ROM HP 12x8x32 CDRW 8MB ATI Xclaim VR 100Base-T ethernet 2 port USB Mac OS 9.1 -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
