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Reader: iDVD 2 only on SuperDrive machines

updated 10:20 pm EST, Sat November 3, 2001

 
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Confirming receipt of his iDVD 2 upgrade today, Stephen Alison notes the application only runs on hardware equipped with a "SuperDrive":

"I received my iDVD 2 upgrade today (on a Saturday @ 6PM via FedEx Ground). I have a Dual 800, but immediately set about installing it on my PowerBook G4. It installed about 1.1GB of data on my drive. I launched it with great anticipation, only to find that it won't launch on my PowerBook because it can't find a SuperDrive (or as it stated it, "the required hardware.') This is a disappointment, as I had hoped to be able to do DVD designing anywhere, then transfer my files to the PowerMac to perform the actual burn. I'm sure that there are others who will be disappointed in this as well."


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    11/04, 08:59am | report spam | Reply | delete

    I hope...

    ...that's not true. If it is, it's pretty ridiculous, especially w/ the number of external DVD burners coming out.

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    11/04, 10:44am | report spam | Reply |

    Of course it true.. but

    Why would you want to author on a system that does not have the burner installed, just so you can have the privelege of copying a couple GIGS of data to a burner system for burning, probably across a network, what a colossal waste of time.

    The Jury is still out on whether IDVD2 will recognize the presence of a acceptable 3rd party "external" drive.

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    Jumping the Gun

    Uh, Yeah. iDVD 1 wouldn't run unless you had a superdrive. Why should 2 be different? iDVD is the HOME USER'S DVD creation tool. If you want workstations that do DVD encoding and authoring, get DVD Studio Pro. I agree with the above poster - A Colossal waste of time to do what your talking about!

    About jumping the gun: there are already a few External drives that support iDVD1, so we should hold back the scorn until it's actually TESTED with 3rd party drives.

    Enjoy.

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    not the point

    I really get tired of people who seem to think they know how everyone else in the world should work. In this case the person wanted to do his work while away from his desktop - hey, guess what, that's the reason Apple sells notebook computers to begin with. And I can think of lots of other cases where someone might want to do the tasks of authoring separately from burning. You do the work that needs doing when and where you have the time to do it. Not everyone is an unemployed slacker who reads Mac news sites all day and has unlimited time.

    Basically the point is that there shouldn't be any artificial strictures like requiring the Superdrive just to work on files on the hard disk - they accomplish nothing, and have gotten in at least one person's way. Regardless of whether you're an annoying MacNN poster with too much time on your hands or head iDVD designer at Apple, you can't know in advance how people will want to use the software. That means you make it as flexible as possible, and most especially you don't introduce limitations for which there's no technical need. In this case it would have been better to have a dialog box warning that (obviously) work done can only be saved on the HD and not burned to DVD, when the Superdrive or equivalent isn't present.

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    Re: iDVD 1.0 comment

    Uh, Yeah. iDVD 1 wouldn't run unless you had a superdrive. Why should 2 be different?

    You obviously never used iDVD 1.0 on a non SuperDrive computer... it works PERFECTLY on my iBook 500. I don't know what you're deal was.

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