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February 14, 2008

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SuperDrive replacements for your broken or outdated Mac

Posted Feb. 14, ’08, 4:19 PM PT by David Dahlquist
Category | Hardware » Accessories

owc superdrive.jpgSo you want to burn DVDs, but you’re stuck using that old iBook or Power Mac G4—at least until that next bonus comes in. Or maybe your SuperDrive crapped out the week after your AppleCare expired. Either way, Other World Computing (OWC) has your back on this one.

They’re offering replacement drives such as the Panasonic-built 16x DVD Dual Layer and Pioneer 20x DVD Dual Layer drives for $29.99 and $34.99 respectively. These models are tray loading drives meant to replace internal drives in Mac Pros and PowerMacs. OWC is also selling slot-loading drives that work as replacements for laptops like the iBook and PowerBook, but these are priced at a heftier $109.99 to $119.99.

The OWC drives work with iLife, Roxio Toast, NTI Dragonbum and other standard CD and DVD authoring software, so if you don’t have the cash to drop on a new Mac but still want the ability to burn copies of Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle for your buddies—which you’d never do, of course—pick one of these bad boys up.


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