Due to the nature of the medium, the CD burner can't simply hold its horses and wait for your Mac to send it data. It has to put that stuff on the disc all in one steady squirt, and if your Mac can't send data to the drive fast enough, the write will fail. For this reason, you might consider buying a cheaper drive and pocketing the difference. I suppose it bears mentioning that I bought my drive from APS . I wouldn' t couch this in terms of a Ihnatko Labs Certified Recommended Top Pick, but you know, I like these people.
Nothing encourages a future purchase like a previous purchase gone right.
Which of course doesn't mean that if this drive goes south on me I won't turn on them like a Ronco-infomercial rotisserie. Next week, we burn a disc. Not to worry. I'll write a little something about How I Spent My Summer Vacation shortly as an act of penance. For more columns by Andy Ihnatko, click here .