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I have a MacBook, want a DVD drive, what are my options?
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<blockquote data-quote="nZa" data-source="post: 509035" data-attributes="member: 39799"><p>The easiest way would be to sell your Macbook and get a used one with a DVD burner inside.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, you're going to get the best performance from a Firewire drive, as there really isn't a data bottleneck like when using USB. Firewire 800 transfers data nearly as fast as your hard-drive can send the data to it, however Firewire 400 is still a vast improvement over USB.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, Firewire doesn't not sap any power from your processor as USB drives require the computer to "think" about what it's doing. Firewire is just picked up as another internal drive (for lack of a better explanation) so your processor doesn't have to think about how to translate the data into "USB code".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nZa, post: 509035, member: 39799"] The easiest way would be to sell your Macbook and get a used one with a DVD burner inside. Otherwise, you're going to get the best performance from a Firewire drive, as there really isn't a data bottleneck like when using USB. Firewire 800 transfers data nearly as fast as your hard-drive can send the data to it, however Firewire 400 is still a vast improvement over USB. Additionally, Firewire doesn't not sap any power from your processor as USB drives require the computer to "think" about what it's doing. Firewire is just picked up as another internal drive (for lack of a better explanation) so your processor doesn't have to think about how to translate the data into "USB code". [/QUOTE]
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