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How is the wifi support, out-of-the-box worked fine? Is it a built-in card?

Nice to see LIghtscribe works in Linux too: gallery http://www.lightscribe.com/ideas/labelgallery.aspx ?id=219
Personally with so many discs, I'd probably use that to remember what was on each one.

Lightscribe has support from LightScribe themselves, no less. They even have an SDK you can download for Linux. Hell, I'm thinking about buying a LS drive just to support a company that's supporting Linux. See here.

Thats for the link, now I know where to look to get Lightscribe working when I finally find a dl dvd drive.

Lightscribe has support from LightScribe themselves, no less. They even have an SDK you can download for Linux. Hell, I'm thinking about buying a LS drive just to support a company that's supporting Linux. See here.

The Verbatim site mentioned in the article is scant on info and lacks pictures.

Well forget the marker for writing to CDs, the folks behind LightScribe (HP) have given us 101 USES FOR YOUR PERMANENT MARKERS.

That is really not the problem, those scenarios are fine. My problem is with scenarios such as these:

- Jane Schmoe is working on her garage, developing a product. She releases it, and sells a bunch of copies for an year. Someone then comes up with a patent that she's infringing, and sues for damages. Even if the patent is invalid, just fighting will be really expensive, so Jane settles.

- Joe Schmoe is working for a small company in their R&D department. He comes up with a pretty neat idea, and they come up with a good product, only to find out that the idea is partially based (say 20%) on someone else's idea which is patented, even though Joe thought it all up by himself.

The problem is that by patenting ideas, is that you're assuming noone else can have them or reach the same conclusion. Although that might be true for some things that involve a lot of research, that is not true for most of the patents out there.

For instance, HP recently came up with LightScribe technology - props for them. It's something that involved some research to develop a coating that could be used for the scribing - that's a fine use for patents.

Did anyone else notice the picture in the upper-right-hand corner of this page http://lightscribe.com/howlightscribeworks.aspx? What's up with the kid and some guy (presumably his father) playing with PS1/2 controllers? Are they saying you can rip PS2 games, burn them, and then label your stash of w4R3z with their new technology? Now, giving them the benefit of the doubt, they are using their PS1/2 controllers to ...gosh, I really can't think of a legitimate reason for this picture.

"Hey, Bob. Put some technology related pictures on this web page."

I can think of a few reasons why someone would rather use this technology than a printer:
1) Don't have to pay for the printer
2) No consumables like ink and special photographic CD labels
3) If you're on the go with your laptop you can create a nice looking label without a printer
4) from the images on their website it looks pretty cool

One problem I noticed and they mention on the website: "...It combines the CD or DVD drive of your computer with specially coated discs..." which means you have to buy special dics. No thanks to that, I'll stick with my sharpie, unless they're the same price as all other media.

i like how they are subconcsiously promoting ps2 game piracy

i mean check it out,
http://lightscribe.com/howlightscribeworks.aspx

If you look at the "who is licensed?" page at http://lightscribe.com/whoislicensed.aspx You can see that many major companies, already has licensed the technology so I can already see this becoming some sort of standard. At least when major software, hardware and media companies like Ahead (Nero)/Cyberlink/Intervideo (software), Memorex/TDK (media), Toshiba/Philips/Hitachi (hardware) support them. No, I'm not working for any of them, just stating that when some of the major companies in the industry support something it usually becomes a standard sooner or later.

Dupe from 9 months ago! They even have the same CD "Vacation in Hawaii" pictured on both sites.

LightScribe is actually an Hewelett Packard product, so the chances of this technology actually being licensed and incorporated in regular disk drives and media is pretty good.

Lightscribe is just another thin ink layer on the opposite side of the disk.
You simply flip the CD/DVD over and burn it again.
They end up looking like engraved jewellery, very effective monochrome images.

theres some examples and loads of info here: http://www.lightscribe.com/

Lightscribe has been talked about for a few years now. Similar to the Yamaha technology, except you're not using the data layer for drawing; it's a dye on the other side of the disc that you will be burning.

I'm getting sick of vapor announcements... especially from HP. Is anyone else still waiting for LightScribe?! If HP's backing of Blu-Ray is gonna be anything like that we won't see it 'till the next decade. :/

What if I make a mistake and try to burn a label on a non-LightScribe-enabled disc? Will it wreck the disc?
LightScribe-enabled discs are "recognized" by LightScribe-enabled computers. If a non-LightScribe disc is put in the disc drive, the LightScribe system won't proceed with the labeling process. Nothing will happen to data stored on the disc.

Link here

Much more information (and more/bigger pictures) here

The official website has more info and photos of labled disks.

This is not quite the same as the Athlon 64 or Opteron notebooks. They are Mainly used in LARGE, HEAVY laptops. And the Athlon 64 and Opteron are generally not currently purchased because they are 64 bits, it is because they are kick-ass I86-32 processors, that also do 64 bits.

So... This is what I would expect... Current PB parts moved down to the IB line, with less l2 cache. Artificially slower machines, but much faster than currently. They are going to be forced to bump the ibooks more, because of GarageBand. It just barely runs and there is too much lantency on an Ibookg4 800. The Low-end Ibook owner and a typical garage band user are going to intersect too much to not serve them better on this box.

I would also expect the Ibook to support a SuperDrive. Prices have fallen significantly enough to provide this and still maintain a good profit margin.

I would expect the ports and graphic parts to remain the same (but maybe a bump in the graphics part, but probably not).

The PB to get ~ 20 to 30% speed bump across the line. Remaining g4 (see reason above).

Same ports. Top of the line ATI mobility chips. To speed up Quartz Extreme, and provide better game playabilty.

Faster Hard Drives.

More Memory (512 and 1 G will be standard models)

Finally, the second shoe of the HP deal will drop, and enabled superdrives. With updated Idvd and Itunes for creating lables for your dvds.

These are two compelling upgrades, that should see significant performance improvement across the lines. Maintain profit and Price points. The Lightscribe enhancment gives a decent and exciting marketing message...

And then you can wait about 6 more monthes for the engineering challenges of making a true apple powerbook g5.