MacWarehouse's latest catalog offers a CD-ROM drive (inc. SCSI cable)
for $299. They say the mechanism is NEC. Has anyone bought/tried it? It sounds
too good to be true.
Andrew
by Andrew Sek » Sat, 24 Jul 1993 07:27:10
MacWarehouse's latest catalog offers a CD-ROM drive (inc. SCSI cable)
for $299. They say the mechanism is NEC. Has anyone bought/tried it? It sounds
too good to be true.
Andrew
by Eric H Sea » Sun, 25 Jul 1993 00:10:36
Just a few "complaints" here. First and foremost, the terminating
resistors are internal, and *SOLDERED IN PLACE*. This means that
(unless you're brave, and good with a soldering iron) the drive MUST be
the last device on your SCSI chain (now and forever more). The drive
also can't send audio CD data to your Mac over the SCSI bus (the Apple
CD 300 can, with Hypercard).
All in all, I can handle these beefs (for the price).
Eric Seale
by Matthew T. Russot » Sun, 25 Jul 1993 08:22:27
>Ok, I'll bite. I've had mine for almost a month now, and I don't have
>any real complaints. Runs fine, fast enough for what I do (maybe if I
>played a lot of interactive CD games I'd be annoyed, but I don't so I'm
>not). Seems nice and reliable.
>Just a few "complaints" here. First and foremost, the terminating
>resistors are internal, and *SOLDERED IN PLACE*. This means that
>(unless you're brave, and good with a soldering iron) the drive MUST be
>the last device on your SCSI chain (now and forever more). The drive
>also can't send audio CD data to your Mac over the SCSI bus (the Apple
>CD 300 can, with Hypercard).
>All in all, I can handle these beefs (for the price).
If you've got another $120 to spend, the Apple CD300 at $399 (+ cable)
is a much better deal-- you get the double-speed CD, multi-session
PhotoCD, direct audio CD transfers (finally, a really great way to use
those digital effects CDs... too bad you now need to spend buck$ on a
16-bit output card...), and a driver which is updated reasonably.
(has NEC ever come out with a 32-bit compatible driver?) That price
is from MacToday-- there's probably someone who has it cheaper.
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