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...