Which burner

[Flakse]

Hi,

I'm investing in a dual 2,5 and I have heard somewhere that it's a good thing to buy a better DVD-R burner than the one that there is in it.

So my question is.. which is the best for the $, and ofcourse, it has be mac friendly.

Thanks

[terryj]

hi.
search the forum for NEC, Pioneer, Plextor.
you should come across this:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=265142

[rotuts]

you might consider waiting a few weeks. rumor is the new G5's will have a dual layer burner in them. it might save you $100.

again rumors only. go to think secret. sorry did not copy the url but will in a 'reply'

rotut

[rotuts]

here it is:

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0504g5notes.html

it links the earlyer one.

again might no be correrct but not the time to buy I think.

rotut

[miksu]

I personally like NEC-burners, as they can be flashed with Mac, bitsetted etc. easily. And they get Mac-support always earlier than later. It's mac-friendly

But, before buying new burner, why not flash original (Pioneer?) with retail version firmware? Apple uses tampered firmware. You propably have to use PC for flashing (Apple updaters only do Apple firmware?), but might be worth it.

[rockinsage]

I'm also a big fan of NEC burners. I've had on-again, off-again problems with Pioneer (dvr-104, etc.), so recently got an NEC 3520a which does +R DL and will soon do -R DL with a firmware update. It's cheap ($50), fast, has a Mac flasher available, a ton of available "official" and "unofficial" firmwares, and is recognized by Apple's iApps with Patchburn. Digging it. No coasters nor glitchy output thus far.

I'm assuming if Apple includes DL burners in the new Macs, it will be the Pioner DVR-109?

[epepper9]

I've always found lacie to make great mac-friendly burners.

There is a new one out/out soon with DL and lightscribe, which is where you turn the disc upside down and the laser scribes an image.

The first two on http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10014]this page have lightscribe, with one of them including toast.

The cd-r and dvd-r media for this is expensive if you want to scribe something though, but media drops in price rapidly.

[miksu]

I've always found lacie to make great mac-friendly burners.

But they don't make actual mechanism, they put Nec/Pioneer/Panasonic whatever. into enclosure and make support file etc. required.

For example, my (internal) Nec ND-2500A uses LaCie support file, which is made for external LaCie drive.