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Apple SuperDrive Gets Faster....For Free
garaxiel writes "Just made a punch over to apple's website to notice a link detailing an update to all SuperDrives (or most; they provide a way to check if you're up to date) so that the superdrive can use the newer, faster media. Heck, if this is all I had to do to get a faster burner back in the day, I would have gladly switched to Apple!"
if this is all I had to do to get a faster burner back in the day, I would have gladly switched to Apple!
So do it now.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
1200 more on a system with higher capabilities for a specialized market, or for someone who works directly as an apple programmer....
So, your drive doesn't get faster. In fact, if you buy the wrong kind of media, it gets slower.
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
You do not get a faster SuperDrive than you currently have. You'd know that if you had actually read the page you linked to rather than spasmodically sending it straight to Slashdot. From the same page:
"Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive."
As I said the other day, I thought that previewing was supposed to help improve accuracy?
This update has been out for months. The drives, as shipped, would destroy themselves if they encountered fast media. This patch makes them able to write the new media, but they still run at the rated speed of the drive. They don't burn any faster with this patch.
Document Posted 11-07-2002.
This is five months old.
It's only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything...
The update doesn't make the drives write faster. The article, says that the update allows 4x media to be written to at 1x or 2x speeds on the SuperDrive. I believe it has something to do with the new 4x media being slightly different (I seem to recall that this also effects PC DVD-R drives as well, and similar updates are availible for those drives)
To quote directly from the FAQ:
Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
You can get the drive to burn faster. Just add more gasoline. For real performance try some liquid oxygen.
Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive.
Rod Begbie done this, and he's not
Hmm, I wonder if that means you can't update an aftermarket drive in the latest PowerMacs, which supposedly do not boot natively to OS 9? Buyer beware, I guess.
Say hello to zMac.
This has been on apple's site for months and to think my post about the duke nukem source being made available as of yesterday got rejected.
this has to be the dumbest post i've ever seen on slashdot. Obviously the editors of the apple.slashdot.org don't have apple computers, or they would have seen that this update not only DOESN"T allow you to burn faster, but was released like 6-7 months ago.
I had feared this is what this post was about when i saw it in my feed reader.........
Actually, $1200 more to find out that the drive isnt really faster, they just slowed your brain down so it seems faster!!!!
. I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
but must we resort to posting updates that have been released 5 months ago? I wonder what would happen if we ran out of mainstream stories.
AMD K-6 released
...For a horrible few seconds there, I thought it was April 1st - all over again. all over again. all over again. all over again.
Document Posted: 11-17-2002.
News From Under Rocks. Stuff That's Moldy.
.@.
So, what does this have to do with the iPod?
This update was released last November.
...this is yet more proof of the support that Apple gives for the products that bear its logo. I can still call up 1-800-SOS-APPL and get support for all my Legacy Macs, like my 8100/80, 8100/110, Quadra 610 and my various 604 PPC Macs.
Only in slashdot are posts of solidarity modded at -1 Redundant, while posts of antagonism are modded as -1 Flamebait.
How does one "make a punch" to a web site?
...this is an old link that announces the update to correctly burn certain media. It's not new...it's not about getting a faster drive. It is rather stupid to assume otherwise just so you can have a story to post.
...chassis your drive into a windows box and flash it from there. I hear there of plenty of people still running windows.
It depends on the drive, but there are two parts to the Pioneer firmware: kernel & general
What firmware updater you can apply depends upon what kernel your drive was most recently installed with. If you can get the kernel installer from Apple, you can make the drive look like an Apple-supplied unit and Apple's OS X firmware updaters will work for you. If not, you could always find a way to install the non-Apple firmware parts into Apple's firmware updater package, right?
Jory
Whoever's making these Apple posts needs to actually read up on whatever the hell it is they're talking about before clicking the 'submit' button. Making us look bad, for crying out loud.
I live, I learn, and yet, I yearn for more. -CyberMonk
way to go, bud. youre a moron. read the article before you post it to slashdot, or bother to read it when it was released.
Spelling errors in your sig, especially of the "your" kind, make you look extra retarded.
This update doesn't make you able to burn new media faster. It enables you to burn new media slower so that your drive doesn't catch on fire .
Just so you know.
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
Superdrive, so what? I had one of these plugged into my Mac Plus. It let me burn 800K floppies and 1.4M floppies. Big deal, so they made a faster one; who uses floppies anymore anyway?
chassis is easily a verb. Just like saddle up and reigned in....we 'trailered' the boat....he 'framed' his question...'coined' a phrase...'shot' her a glance... 'punked' out... she 'scabbed' her way into the dance. =========
You need to spend more time out in the real world, and less time watching Jeopardy.
This update is probably referring to Pioneers previous series, the A04 or DVR-04.
./ post and on news.com.
The drives needed a firmware update so if can properly burn 4x dvd media or greater without burning out the drive, literally. The update from pioneer has been out for sometime.
Superdrives in apple machines are pioneer dvd burners. I'm too lazy to check but this was a
You idiot. "You're" is a contraction of "you are." "Your" is second person possesive.