PowerBook G4 SuperDrive Speed Bump Hack

Posted by pudge on Sunday August 17, 2003 @11:58AM from the do-not-try-this-at-home dept.

George Wright writes "A guy called cynikal has managed to hack the firmware on the PowerBook G4's "Superdrive" (the Panasonic UJ-815A slimline slot loading DVD-R/RW burner) to enable DVD-R burning at 2x (instead of 1x), DVD-RW burning at 1x (instead of it being disabled), CD-R burning at 16x (instead of 8x) and CD-RW burning at 8x (instead of 4x). Thanks a lot cynikal! The drive now reports as a UJ-815A instead of a UJ-815, and has a firmware revision of D101 instead of the DOC4, DOCB or DWDB the PowerBooks came with. A firmware downgrader can be obtained from the same place to downgrade back to DOCB if you want to, and there is a discussion thread."

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As if it wasn't bad enough . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-17 13:44 · Score: -1, Flamebait

. . . that Apple puts commodity hardware in pretty cases and doubles the price, but they cripple it, too? That's over the line!
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You fail it, buttmunch. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-17 14:53 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is one of the shittiest troll's I've seen in a long time. It's not even remotely coherent, and the people it's aimed at are the ones most likely to realize it's a troll. Try again, retard, preferably on K5, where they'll eat your balls for this kind of tripe.