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16x DVD-R Drives Planned for 2004

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the burn-baby-burn dept.

madsenj37 writes "From this article at PC World: 'Mitsubishi Electric has developed a more powerful semiconductor laser that should pave the way for 16X DVD writers to be commercially available by about 2004. The new laser is able to deliver pulses of light at a power of 200 milliwatts, which is double that of lasers used in today's 4X DVD writer drives, the Tokyo company said this week.' It goes on to say that a whole Digital Versatile Disc Could be written in about 3.5 minutes."

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  1. Re:PowerMac schedule ? by ELiTeUI · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I have to assume that you said 533mhz fsb because you read that's what intel's fsb is. If that is the case, you, sir are a moron.

    I hope you do realize that the 533mhz FSB that intel is claiming is really a 133mhz bus that is quad-pumped (similar to agp which is 66mhz, double- quad- or 8way-pumped to give higher bandwidth but worse latency). This is not the optimal solution, and is certainly a far cry from a true 533mhz fsb.

    also- if you want the biggest, baddest machine available for $5000, you might want to look into dual athlons (or dual xeons if they will fit into the budget). Either one of these (at top available clock speed) will mop the floor with your dual G4 (yes, even in photoshop and in video editing), and will likely cost less to boot. Apples are for people who like their computer to look pretty as opposed to being more useful.

    ELiTeUI Out.

  2. Re:PowerMac schedule ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is it that every time someone mentions a Mac, some asshat tells them to buy some x86 solution instead. You're retarded if you think that's a useful suggestion because the grandparent poster probably ALREADY THOUGHT OF THAT . Mac users *know* how much Macs cost, and know how much the alternatives cost. They choose Macs because they suit their purpose (and I'd personally rather have OSX for my everyday fuck around computer than just about anything else) or they just plain like them. I have 3 Athlon based PCs (running various combinations of Linux/*BSD/Windows) and one PowerMac. Guess which one I choose to use more.

    So, in closing, shut up. Thanks.