Did Apple Accidentally send me a Superdrive?

[dukemeiser]

I got really excited too when iDVD came on my family's eMac. I'd thought Apple had screwed up, but alas, it was only a Combo drive.

 

[Koodauw]

Man you guys/gals are super lucky to get a SuperDrive unit for the price of a combo one. I am so jealous.

I need to get some luck like that.

Maybe some of your good karma can rub off on the guy who had his dog pee on his iBook.

 

[fussball]

Man you guys/gals are super lucky to get a SuperDrive unit for the price of a combo one. I am so jealous.

I need to get some luck like that.

Maybe some of your good karma can rub off on the guy who had his dog pee on his iBook.

I've had super good luck with apple, recently. I had my logic board on my iBook/700 fail, and got a new one for free (I know there is the repair ext. program) even though I had painted my iBook blue (ie, voided any warranty) now, I just got a superdrive PB w/ 5400rpm 80 gig HD for 1379 (yeah student developer's discount!)

 

[Abstract]

Hehe, the first thing I did after reading this thread was go to my System Profile to check for a superdrive that I didn't know I had.

(no mistake on my rev B 12"......no Superdrive)

 

[Rod Rod]

It looks like I should have ordered online from Apple, instead of having bought my new 1.33GHz 12" PB from the local Apple store.

Anyhow I'm happy. I upgraded from an 867MHz 12" PB, and it only cost me about $250 (as I sold the other one). The only spec in which I downgraded was RAM... the old one had 640, and the new one has 512. The RAM came free. It came from the 1.25GHz 15" PB of a friend. He upgraded to 2x512 modules and gave me his old 2x256 sticks.

 

[toughboy]

Combo drive powerbooks come with iDVD too.

Open the iDVD. Try to burn a DVD. If it burns it, it is a superdrive.

mine didnt.. (12"PB 867)

 

[bigandy]

No. DVD-R means that it can burn DVD-R discs. DVD-ROM means that it can only read DVDs.

and all the superdrives that apple have produced for at least the last 18 months are dvd-rw, apple just say they're dvd-r because they don't officially support the -rw in the OS. programmes like toast can do the rewriting thing...