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Re: Upgrade OSX 10.39 ?? Connect high-speed?

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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:48:52 +1200, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:

>
>> Laura, do you have a DVD drive?  They look like CD drives but might
>> say DVD on the front, and they will play DVDs. 
>
>iMac G4 drives aren't identifiable that way. The tray is behind a
>pop-open door and it doesn't have any visible DVD or CD logos.
>
>There was a 700 MHz iMac G4 model which only had a CD-RW drive, which
>couldn't read DVDs, but there was also a 700 MHz model with a "combo"
>drive (reads DVDs, reads and writes CDs). All faster models had either a
>"combo" drive or a "Superdrive" (which can also write DVDs).
>
>If Laura doesn't know whether her drive can read DVDs and has a 700 MHz
>iMac G4, one way to find out is via "About This Mac" (described
>earlier), then click the More Info button. This will launch the System
>Profiler application.
>
>You should be able to identify the optical drive type by clicking on the
>ATA category in the left column, then click on the entry for the optical
>drive in the right column. It should have a field "Drive Type" in the
>lower right area, which will say something like "CD-RW" or
>"CD-RW/DVD-ROM".

I'll try to remember all this for my own sake, and I've sent it to
Laura too. 

Thanks again. 

Laura, if you want to write me, again remove NOSPAM, or just write me
at the address you usually use.
>
>-- 
>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz

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