Will, thanks for doing the testing on iDVD. I went ahead anyway and ordered the ZIF from MacGurus on Sunday. Just a quick note for anybody outside the US who is contemplating ordering this upgrade. I ordered from MacGurus as they had the international option in their ordering form. A day later I got a message saying that it would be shipped directly from Daystar through a MacGurus order form. The reason for mentioning this- well I couldn't see an option for international shipping on the Daystar webpage and the shipping cost Daystar would normally apply if not for the MacGurus order form would be $15 more than from MacGurus.
Long and short of it then, if placing an international order go through MacGurus- cheaper shipping and it is directly shipped from Daystar anyway. Cheers, Pete. on 14/7/04 5:30, SuperMacs List at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok just for the quest of the answer I installed iDVD 4.0 yesterday > evening. I'd previously tried iDVD 3.x and gave up on it. Was able to > install 3.x version but wouldn't open with the G3 even using a hack I'd > found. > iDVD 4 i'd heard would install and open on any machine with a G4 CPU. > I'd also read you could even use it to make a project which you could > later transfer to a machine that could burn it. Ok install went good > opens with message something to the effect of this machine doesn't seem > to have a usable DVD for burning. Seem to work fine and I've heard you > can save an iDVD project and perhaps use Toast 6 to burn the project > with. I have a Pioneer A05/105 DVD RW drive. It is the same as many > Apple Superdrives but I have it in a firewire box as the Acard ATA 66 > PCI card I have will let me use it as a reader the burning part gives > hardware errors. In the firewire box it works fine with iTunes, the > built into OSX disk burner and Toast. Apple system profiler sees it as > an Apple SuperDrive! > Off I go to: > http://www.kentidwell.com/idvd4/#faq_02 > Download a very small file follow directions carefully and iDVD 4 > (updated to 4.0.1 by Software update) now lets me chose an external DVD > burner to burn an iDVD project to DVD or make a disk image file which > can be burned with Toast 6! > Most any DVD burner that works with itunes and or disk burner should > work. This includes the many Pioneer DVD burners and a few other brands > Apple has used as Superdrives over the last few years and perhaps some > others. > I already know iMovie works as do the other iLife apps. Both iDVD and > iMovie I believe have the limits of needing either DV or QT (movie) > formated files to work with. QT Pro can convert them put it always took > longer tehn I wanted to wait for with the G3 it should be faster with > the G4 to do conversions but have not yet tried. > In fairness to OWC I should also let people know that their G4 500-600 > MHz Zif upgrade is now listed as being the same 7410 LE nitro chip as > the Daystar/XLR8 upgrade. It is often hard to know where facts end and > marketing takes over an runs over the facts and specs . Daystar claims > theirs runs cooler and makes better use of Altivec in OSX then what > others are selling. It is true that the Daystar version can be bought > from Daystar or the fine folks at macgurus.com for $199.00 and comes > with the very nice Daystar/XlR8 cache software which cuts startup times > by nearly half in OSX and the OWC sells for $229.00 with no software. > OWC also has the G4 450-533 Mhz Zif for $149.00 which is a great price. > It is the older chip design so may run a bit warmer and unlike the > other chip it would be running over clocked and not sure what speed it > would be happy running in our machines. > I've had to down clock my setup to 531 MHz CPU @ 59 MHz bus with L2 > cache running at 265.5 MHz still not too shabby. Reason for this OS > 9.2.2 booted with scrambled screen to my surprise at the 540/60 bus > speed which was fine in OSX both Jaguar and Panther. I don't seem to be > able to write a short reply ;-) later Will S -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
