has anyone taken a apple laptop DVD-R and gotten it to work in a PC laptop?

[holden j caufield]

I would think someone would have flashed it and gotten it to work in a laptop.

 

[Eug]

Except that all the Apple laptop DVD-RWs are in brand new Apple laptops (which the owners are not going to want to sell for scrap), and all are slot load.

 

[holden j caufield]

toshiba makes one for laptops but it's too new and like you said nobody would want to take it out and part with it.

 

[Eug]

By the way, the Apple laptop DVD burners don't even burn DVD-RW. Just DVD-R.

 

[zephyrprime]

I don't understand why people would want to burn a dvd on a laptop. The slow hard drive and low memory on a laptop would make video editting a painful experience.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
I don't understand why people would want to burn a dvd on a laptop. The slow hard drive and low memory on a laptop would make video editting a painful experience.

?

My laptop's memory: 768 MB RAM, expandable to 1 GB.
My laptop's hard drive: 60 GB, with max sequential transfer rate ~ 30 MB/s. I also have several external Firewire hard drives.

Plus DVD is a great data backup medium as well.

 

[zephyrprime]

I have the IBM 40GNX which is the fastest of currently available hard drives but it is so slow compared to my desktop HD.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
I have the IBM 40GNX which is the fastest of currently available hard drives but it is so slow compared to my desktop HD.

In usual usage the 40GNX has is significantly faster than both my Toshiba and my Fujitsu 60 GB drives. However, for sequential transfers (ie. empty partition for captures), both are slightly faster than the IBM 40GNX, despite the fact that both my drives are only 4200 rpm.

Anyways, like I said, nothing is stopping you from using an external 7200 rpm desktop Firewire drive for video editing.