Super Drives from Apple are Crap
Alright, why does apple keep using the same Panasonic crap drives. I have a powerbook g4 that had two drives go out and I finally replaced it with a pioneer k05 and no problems. Now, my macbook's super drive, panasonic, has decided to start not reading discs. I was upgrading to leopard and it would not read the original install dvd, but it would read a dmg burned disc... what the heck. I was trying to intstall office 2007 into my window's partition and it stopped reading the disc!!!! My powerbook can read both discs no problem... by the way, my buddy has a new mac mini, and it has the pioneer k06 drive in it... if they can put a decent drive in that one, why can't they put a good drive in the macbook?
I would love to hang apple right now. Questions:
1) Can I put the pioneer k06 in this laptop... I have no desire to put another panasonic in this one... went down this road before. I have read at other forums that the panasonic in this one might actually be smaller than 12.7mm.. does anyone happen to know if this is true?
2) If I were to buy an external cd/dvd burner, would I be able to start up from that drive, say with the install disc?
Any help would be appreciated!
a frustrated person
So of course, after writing that....
3 weeks plus a few hours and I realize that my super-drive is pooched. It seems to play commercial DVD's and read the install disks OK, but not ones that I've produced with iDVD or burned from other sources. They just sit in the drive for a couple of minutes and then get spit out. It burned a DVD with toast from disk image of a back-up of a commercial DVD, but then failed verification. And of course it played fine in my other Mac's. There seems to be a lot of folks with this issue on the Apple Forum.
Glen
Alright, why does apple keep using the same Panasonic crap drives. I have a powerbook g4 that had two drives go out and I finally replaced it with a pioneer k05 and no problems. Now, my macbook's super drive, panasonic, has decided to start not reading discs. I was upgrading to leopard and it would not read the original install dvd, but it would read a dmg burned disc... what the heck. I was trying to intstall office 2007 into my window's partition and it stopped reading the disc!!!! My powerbook can read both discs no problem... by the way, my buddy has a new mac mini, and it has the pioneer k06 drive in it... if they can put a decent drive in that one, why can't they put a good drive in the macbook?
I would love to hang apple right now. Questions:
1) Can I put the pioneer k06 in this laptop... I have no desire to put another panasonic in this one... went down this road before. I have read at other forums that the panasonic in this one might actually be smaller than 12.7mm.. does anyone happen to know if this is true?
2) If I were to buy an external cd/dvd burner, would I be able to start up from that drive, say with the install disc?
Any help would be appreciated!
a frustrated person