Dell gets 16x 8.5GB DVD burners from Philips

[Grimace]

Apple has always lagged behind in the burning speed department - let's hope by Rev C there are 16x Superdrives in the Powermacs.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/22/technology/philips.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

[Laslo Panaflex]

Wow, that would be nice. 200 US dollars does not seem like a bad price either.

[wide]

Yeah, Apple is really behind with their SuperDrives.

[Grimace]

Philips said that 16x burners will be *MAINSTREAM* by the end of 2004. This suggests that there are more vendors (HP etc.) who will be getting them. Since there isn't an immediate release of these drives, Apple won't feel too much pressure for another month or two until they start popping up in BTO options from other vendors. In december, I want *standard*

Dual 3.0+Ghz Powermac
1.5Ghz FSB
512MB RAM
250GB Hard Drive
16x Superdrive
9600XT or better
Internal Bluetooth Module

[jsw]

Likely a stupid question, but I'll ask nevertheless:

What media - besides the dual-layer disks mentioned in the report - will this burner read and write?

I assume DVD+/-R, CD-R, CD-RM, etc., etc. I hate assuming, though. Anyone actually know?