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Offline sokukodo

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Super vs Combo drive
« on: February 21, 2003, 07:35:00 PM »
I might be missing something, but if a Superdrive has everything a combo drive has, why would one want both?
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2003, 08:45:00 PM »
A combo Drive writes CDR's much faster than the Superdrive in my FP imac.  If it had been an option when I bought it, I would have bought the 800Mhz  processor with the combo drive instead of the Superdrive.  As far as wanting both, I suppose if you want to write to CD-Rs  fast, and be able to burn DVD's, you would need both.

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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2003, 09:02:00 PM »
oh, ok, I see ... thanks for the input!    

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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2003, 10:29:00 AM »
To reiterate. Combo Drive = CDRW + DVD-ROM. DVD Read only.

Superdrive = CDR Burner and DVD Burner.
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