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Summary: Simple, Intuitive and Fun
Review: As one who has limited time, patience and techno-understanding, this is one easy-to-use little workhorse. I use a iMac (OS 9.2) and within 5 minutes of installation and plugging it in, I was burning CDs. In fact, you really don't need to consult the users guide; the operation is totally intuitive. Highly recommended, especially for those who are a bit techno-shy.
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Summary: Simple, Intuitive and Fun
Review: As one who has limited time, patience and techno-understanding, this is one easy-to-use little workhorse. I use a iMac (OS 9.2) and within 5 minutes of installation and plugging it in, I was burning CDs. In fact, you really don't need to consult the users guide; the operation is totally intuitive. Highly recommended, especially for those who are a bit techno-shy.
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Summary: Works perfectly with i tune and has Toast
Review: Cool for the Mac, excellent with a PC. Look rugged and no fan. I love the drive and recommend it. So much better than Plastic case for taiwanese technologies.
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Summary: La Cie/LiteOn review
Review: First the good bits:
Installation (on a MacG4) a breeze. No problems with burning although I've not burned at the maximum speed. Has worked seamlessly with Final Cut Pro, Toast, iMovie and iTunes. Quite quiet.
Then: The power on button is a lovely blue semi-circular wedge along one of the inner edges of the casing. Looks beautiful but requires use of the thumb to use rather than the standard button that one pushes with the index finger.
My Macs system sees the device easily, but sees it as a LiteOn-- not a LaCie-- device.
Finally: can't rate durability because it's just a month or 2 old.
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Summary: Doesn't work with iTunes 4.0.1.
Review: Good luck getting iTunes 4.0.1 to see this drive. This is a major deal if you want to burn a music CD from Apple's new AAC file format (as opposed to a MP3) because you can only do that from within iTunes. Aside from not working with iTunes and the fact that the unit is very loud when it has spun up, the unit seems to do its job and Mac OS X recognized the burner without having to install any software. I will be returning this drive.
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Summary: Awesome.
Review: Great product. Nice metal case, works perfect with windows xp pro. don't waste your time with the Iomega.
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Summary: Awesome.
Review: Great product. Nice metal case, works perfect with windows xp pro. don't waste your time with the Iomega.
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Summary: Speedy & Rugged
Review: I bought and starting using this drive about 2 months ago, on the advice of a techno-wizard at an all-Mac dealer. As it's the first "burner" I've owned, I can't compare it to others, but I have owned other LaCie products and this one seems to be in the same tradition of solid construction and easy installation and use. It should be -- it's a lot pricier than the ones I see at the big box stores.Setup was a plug-and-play breeze via my Mac's Firewire port and the user-friendly instructions that came on LaCie's CD (what else would they come on?). Some reviews brag about the quiet operation of their drive; actually when this one really revs up, it sounds like a little tornado -- an experience I kinda like. So far, no problems. Everything it's read or burned has been flawless and has played on other CD players. (Fellow Beginners: I had to learn that high-powered RW drives like this work best with top-speed CD's, which are not easy to find and cost a little more. LaCie pointed that out in their User Guide, a long with many more tips. Another techno-wizard clued me into the fact that good RW CDs cost so much more than regular read-only ones that you're better off to just burn a fresh one when you've had enough "sessions" to fill one up.)
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Summary: Speedy & Rugged
Review: I bought and starting using this drive about 2 months ago, on the advice of a techno-wizard at an all-Mac dealer. As it's the first "burner" I've owned, I can't compare it to others, but I have owned other LaCie products and this one seems to be in the same tradition of solid construction and easy installation and use. It should be -- it's a lot pricier than the ones I see at the big box stores. Setup was a plug-and-play breeze via my Mac's Firewire port and the user-friendly instructions that came on LaCie's CD (what else would they come on?). Some reviews brag about the quiet operation of their drive; actually when this one really revs up, it sounds like a little tornado -- an experience I kinda like. So far, no problems. Everything it's read or burned has been flawless and has played on other CD players. (Fellow Beginners: I had to learn that high-powered RW drives like this work best with top-speed CD's, which are not easy to find and cost a little more. LaCie pointed that out in their User Guide, a long with many more tips. Another techno-wizard clued me into the fact that good RW CDs cost so much more than regular read-only ones that you're better off to just burn a fresh one when you've had enough "sessions" to fill one up.)
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Summary: Great for PC's too!
Review: I bought this as a way to archive my hundreds of digital photos stored on my hard drive - I knew I was tempting fate. My old reliable system: Pentium III at 500 MHz, Windows 98SE, previously equipped with an IEEE 1394 card with two Firewire ports (for video capture). I followed the suggested PC installation instructions and my system recognized the drive within 20 seconds an gave it a drive designation. I used it to load the Roxio EasyCD Creator software and all went perfectly. I used the preformatted CD-RW that came with the drive and burned 400 MB of digital photos in 5 minutes! The software is easy to use: drag and drop files to the CD icon that stays on your desktop and it's done! The CD I burned worked fine in my computer's main CD/DVD drive. While I have nothing to compare this drive too, I have absoultely no complaints!
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