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MCE announces 16x CD-RW upgrade for iMacs

updated 12:15 pm EDT, Tue June 18, 2002

 
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MCE Technologies today announced an internal 16x10x24x CD-RW drive upgrade for tray-loading iMacs (233MHz-333MHz models). The iCDRW16, designed to replace the iMac's original internal CD-ROM drive, offers compatibility with iTunes and Disc Burner CD-recording software as well as Buffer Underrun protection. MCE says the drive is user-installable, but recommends installation at one of MCE's Authorized Upgrade Centers. The $200 drive, expected to ship on June 24th (according to the press release), includes a one-year warranty; a special version of the drive, which includes Roxio’s Toast Lite CD recording software, is $220.


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    too much money

    You can pick up a TDK velo drive at 40/12/48 for about $150.00. At 16x10x24x CD-RW it is way behind the curve when it comes to speed. But then again your probably used to getting last years technology...

    www.velocd.tdk.com

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    But

    Those TDK drives won't work. They're too big to fit in an iMac. An iMac requires a drive that fits portables. Hence the higher price.

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    q

    The Bondi/333 iMacs used different drive mechanisms than a "normal" internal drive, like the one you've listed above....

    Can't be sure at all, but I think it was a sized-down pseudo-laptop-drive or something of that ilk....

    The tray definitely doesn't look like any other desktop CD trays...

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    06/18, 01:50pm | report spam | Reply |

    ha!

    ah, good to see I've been beaten to it!

  1. mr100percent

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    06/18, 02:15pm | report spam | Reply |

    regular

    my iMac's tray broke (fight with a family member), anybody know where i can get a cheap, plain, vanilla CR-ROM drive for the iMac? Without it I can't install OS X

  1. ValVashon

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    06/18, 04:35pm | report spam | Reply |

    This is what...

    I was working on, sort of. My plan was to get the beige/black internal drives that an online retailer was selling, and swap the insides with a broken iMac tray loading drive- then presto! You've got an internal CD-RW that looks like an origianl drive. Since both were Panasonic drives, I assumed that this swap would probably work. I'll still do one just to see, since I have a broken drive on the way. The beige/black drives were bootable and only $140. After the case swap my plan was to resell them at about $200.00 too. Hopefully MCE's drives will be reliable, not like the Techworks drives. To the above poster- search on eBay as there are a lot of tray loading drives for auction right now. Not just any drive will work- it must be a bootable drive to install an operating system. And I might take your broken drive off of your hands if you replace it...

    Val

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    drive replacement

    http://www.microdocusa.com/specials.html

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