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<blockquote data-quote="WilliS" data-source="post: 23299"><p>not sure really...it depends on what company mac has baught their shipment from... i know a lot of the original G5's were either sony dvd-r/cd-rw's or pioneer.... i know mine is a pioneer...and if you go into "about this mac" it will say exactly what you have...mine is a DVD-RW / CD-RW even though its only advertised as DVD-R...mine will do rewritables as well</p><p></p><p>so supposing that mac baught thousands of sony drives.... and thousands of pioneer drives....you either get the one or the other...and the pioneer is dvd-rw</p><p></p><p>so im supposing the same thing goes for laptops...when they order thousands of parts for their powerbooks..the get deals from the companies that make the hardware....and if they get 2 different companies..they will have different specs.... but they will advertise the specs that both drives have....</p><p></p><p>so luck of the draw you may get an "upgrade" to whatever the specifications are on a dvd-r drive</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WilliS, post: 23299"] not sure really...it depends on what company mac has baught their shipment from... i know a lot of the original G5's were either sony dvd-r/cd-rw's or pioneer.... i know mine is a pioneer...and if you go into "about this mac" it will say exactly what you have...mine is a DVD-RW / CD-RW even though its only advertised as DVD-R...mine will do rewritables as well so supposing that mac baught thousands of sony drives.... and thousands of pioneer drives....you either get the one or the other...and the pioneer is dvd-rw so im supposing the same thing goes for laptops...when they order thousands of parts for their powerbooks..the get deals from the companies that make the hardware....and if they get 2 different companies..they will have different specs.... but they will advertise the specs that both drives have.... so luck of the draw you may get an "upgrade" to whatever the specifications are on a dvd-r drive [/QUOTE]
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