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Apple ships 1/2 million SuperDrive Macs

updated 12:40 pm EDT, Mon April 8, 2002

Apple today announced that it has shipped nearly half a million SuperDrive-equipped Macs and more than 2 million DVD-R media discs to date since it first introduced the SuperDrive and its iDVD and DVD Stuio authoring applications in January 2001: "All SuperDrive-equipped Macs include iDVD 2 software, the world's easiest- to-use application for creating DVDs that play in consumer DVD players, and the only consumer DVD authoring application that can create professional- looking DVDs with full-motion menu buttons and backgrounds." The Boston Globe has today also published an iMac review that concludes the "Stunning SuperDrive puts the latest Apple iMac over the top." [updated]

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I wonder what the ratio of DVD-RW drives is when comparing Apple-contributed drives to that of all drives shipped? I imagine it has been substantial.

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I wonder

If Apple will sell the Superdrive in the low end Powermacs with next rev.

Its sad that they dont already, as the high end iMac is in the same price range of the lowend tower, I cant see how anyone would buy the 800mhz powermac.

Powermacs are PRO computers, even the low end models should have at least the features availible to consumer models.

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Re: I Wonder

"I cant see how anyone would buy the 800mhz powermac. "

It's simple. If you need PCI slots or room for extra internal hard drives, you buy the tower. I wanted a Cube at the time, but bought a low end tower because I had to add a sound card for use with Cubase.

Plus the low end 800 MHz tower is probaby still faster than the iMac, since it has a faster system bus and all.

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Yeah but...

...extra space, in other words EMPTY SPACE, plus a couple of PCI card slots are hardly worth the cost. I'll always own towers, but if I had to buy another machine right now there's no way I'd buy a G4 tower. They're just too close to the iMac, which obviously comes with so much more.

How odd it is to say that too. I never thought the iMac would catch up / surpass the towers in price point and features.

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But,

for pro's the monitor on the iMac (in addition to the lack of expandability) may just not be sufficient.

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BACK ON TOPIC

you know the Movie industry just did a collective shutter.... hahaha

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BACK ON TOPIC

you know the Movie industry just did a collective shutter.... hahaha

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hmm

i got hp athlon box instead :)

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cool

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Re: hmmm

But the hard on is still for Macs, I take it?

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Bring on....

....the onslaught of really bad home DVD.

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Just burned my first...

I got my new iMac last week and just burned my first DVD early this morning. It went a lot faster than I thought--of course like the article said it takes a while to get the video exported out of iMovie. My only dissapointment is that the DVD-R did not play in my Playstation 2. It's listed on Apple's site as being compatible... Also I got a ridiculous ticket from the most abusive cop I've ever encountered this morning. Good thing it won't hold up in court.

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Abusive Cop?

Did he beat you?

-the 'BOOH YEAH' guy

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Pig bait

Did that pig pull out his p***** and shake it at you? That would be pretty damn abusive. All cops love to abuse power, but some are better at hiding it than others.

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our cops

are generally pretty good guys and gals. Especially the younger ones have always seems very polite to me. Then again I've never had to deal with anything worse than a speeding ticket. Still, I've seen cops show A LOT of restraint in dealing with some very obnoxious people. Maybe a little too much restraint!

-the 'BOOH YEAH' guy

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Restraint

No p***** waving, thankfully! Yes, they're generally quite patient considering the circumstances--this one just wasn't.

Back on topic--my iMac drew a lot of attention when I set it up at work (had it shipped there). Lots of people started asking questions. They are amazed by the superdrive and the abilities of the machine. My cube neighbor says his next computer will probably be a Mac. Of course others came along with their stereotypes--"I hate Macs" (but they can't explain why) or "Macs are too expensive." Well, you get what you pay for and in the iMac's case I think it's a bargain.

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The Towers have...

The G4 iMacs may look just as good as the towers, but they are not. Remember Additional Hard drives, PCI slots, AGP Port, Giga Net, faster system bus, larger RAM capacity, and a big L3 cache(iMacs do not have an L3 cache). The L3 Cache breaths new life into the G4, its almost a totally different machine. Its like using a G4 powerbook and using the new G4 iMac, I bet the imac is faster, because of the system bus, power management on the powerbook and the faster HD on the imac. Its not just processor cycles that make a computer fast, a faster more efficient system bus and a huge L3 cache will have a dramatic effect on the computers. Remember when apple started using onboard L2 cache on the processors, they were able to eliminate the slow down caused by accessing cache on the motherboard. The G3 processor was the first to use this technology in the public market. Basically, the G3 is a 603e processor with built in L2 cache. A G4 is a 604e processor with a built in L2 cache and a velocity engine. So the high end towers are faster, and more expandable. Ask yourself this question, if you want to put a nvidia GeForce 4 in your imac, can it be done? Sure you can add a firewire or usb hd, but is it as fast as putting a PCI SCSI raid with tons of HDs, maybe not installed with in the tower but with some mods, a possibility. How about that new HD video capture card going for $11000. It was in the news here on macnn yesterday. Those options need to be available for the pro users. The average user who dables with photoshop and imovie will be fine. A semi pro user might want to consider the tower because future growth. Oh and I almost forgot, did anyone consider the fact that you can put faster processors in the G4 towers, if you want to upgrade your system? Not even a possibility on the new iMacs.

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2 million blank DVD's...

... have shipped from apple.

but they give you 2 free with every superdrive mac. that's 1000,000 given away with superdrive macs.

that means a million disks have been sold through retail. apple only sell them in packs of 5. so, maximum 200,000 mac superdrive owners (less than half) have been back to apple to buy more disks.

apple sell the cheapest disks.

so, looks like many people are bying superdrive macs and not actually burning DVDs.

what are they doing with them?

b.

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They're waiting for a PS

'back-up' utility. hahaha

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2 DVDs? Mine came w/1

My DVD iMac only came with one blank DVD, and 3 blank CD-Rs. Makes you wonder! At least I found a good deal for DVD-R media at Maczone. 10 for $30.

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1st POST 3rd PAGE

BOOH YEAH!!!

Will the superdrive ever be able to burn dual layer (9GB single sided) media if it becomes commercially available???

this message brought to you by the 'BOOH YEAH' guy.

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