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*wishing*

I once thought a DVD burner would be a frivolity and unnecessary.

Boy, was I wrong. ^_^

Indeed. It would take forever to get my art, downloaded video, and manga stuff onto CDs. DVDs are muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better.

When I got my first iMac, I said to myself, gee, why would I want a hard drive larger than 40GB and why would I want a SuperDrive (CD/DVD burner)? I sure was wrong!

Good luck! I've just spent many happy hours backing up my whole hard drive on mine, and it was great! It would have taken me about a month to back everything onto CDs...

Enjoy. :)

That's why I went for the DVD drive - my CD burner worked OK, although it stopped being able to read DVDs a while back, and I looked at the sheer amount of Doctor Who, Penn & Teller, and various anime episodes on my hard drive, not to mention my art, and started whimpering. So a DVD drive it was!

Good luck. So, can you burn anime now?

I could burn anime onto CDs before, but technically I could burn anime onto DVDs that will play on DVD players. Don't know how, yet, but hey. :)

Although one of the first things I'm going to do is to burn all the Project Blue Rose and Butterfly Kick stuff onto two sets of discs, keep one set here, and mail one set to you to provide offsite storage, so if the apartment burns down, all that work will still be safe. (I had friends whose neighbors accidentally set their building on fire a year or so back - they barely had time to grab the rat and the CPUs before the smoke was at killing levels, so I am very aware that if the palce is on fire I may not have time to get the computer.)

I don't expect to ever burn anime onto DVDs in a format that current DVD players can play (assuming they can read the DVD-R in the first place). This is because the format on the hard drive is more compact and I can pipe video from my computer to my TV, so I see no reason to suffer the bloat factor. Plus, I think conversion is fairly slow.

I have given discs of my stuff (not the manga, though) to friends for safekeeping, too. It's a good idea.

It's an idea I've always paid lip service to, but I really hadn't had much of anything that would put me into serious trouble if I lost it, until now.

You are going to install it yourself? Wow. I think I also need a DVD burner, I eventually had to delete the 100+ episodes of Naruto because I came to the realization that there was just no way I could burn that all on CDs.

Yup! Installed it and am burning my second DVD as we speak. Er, type.

Installing CD/DVD drives is fairly easy. Installing new motherboards is hard - at least, harder than *I* want to do, so when I got a new motherboard I went over to a friend's house and had him install it for me. :D And when I was swapping my almost-dead hard drive out with a new hard drive and trying to scrape some data off the almost-dead one, I got used to swapping drive-type things in and out.

Damn! I forgot to remove the old dead hard drive! Phooey! It's not attached to anything, jsut taking up space.

Okay then. I was planning on updating my old computer but it requires a new motherboard for me to add any more RAM. So if it's difficult, I better do the same and ask my "takes-things-apart" friend.

But if CD drives are fairly easy, I might be able to do that part myself. :)

Yup. Just look at whatever's in there before you remove the old one (assuming you're replacing an old one) and insert the cables into it the same way. There's a jumper-thingy on the pack that you're supposed to set to master, slave or soemthing else depending on whther you want the drive to be a master drive, slave drive or something else, and I got confused and just left it the way it came out of the box and it worked just fine. So it must have come pre-set to slave, because thinking about it after I got it in, I remembered that my old CD drive was definitely a slave drive, submissive to the master hard drive. Computers are so kinky!