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Best External DVD Burner for Leopard

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atomicshark

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Aug 4, 2007
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I just bought a new iMac with Mac OS X 10.5 and I wanted to build my own external USB 2.0 DVD burner.

I've heard that people have had problems, but I was wondering if anyone had any success with any specific drive?

I'm trying not to spend too much. I was hoping to buy an internal drive and external case from Newegg.com. Problem is that it is very hard to find any Mac compatibility info.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
I just got a LaCie external burner. Like literally, it got here Friday. I guess you can cheaper burners but so far it's performed beautifully (and it looks great on my desk too).
 
A Super Multi Blu. Then you can read/write also DVD-RAM and Blu Ray, even if you can't watch Blu Ray movies.
 
Scorch07 said:
I just got a LaCie external burner. Like literally, it got here Friday. I guess you can cheaper burners but so far it's performed beautifully (and it looks great on my desk too).
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The LaCie drive is great. Too bad it costs so much. I guess you get what you pay for.:)
 
Update:

I bought a Macally external USB 2.0 case and Samsung 22x DVD burner from Newegg.com. Total cost: $60.98 plus shipping (I bought a few other things too, so I don't know what the shipping would have been for only those 2 items.).

I got it today. It works perfectly!

Apple recognizes it in the system profiler. It can burn DVD-Rs up to 22x. Oddly, Toast claims that it can only burn at 16x. Either way, it's still at least twice as fast as the anemic 8x drive inside the iMac.

I guess Apple did change its policy towards third party burners.
 
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