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A1054 inBook combo drive specs?

Good afternoon.


I can't find a list of what formats this drive will read/burn, save for CD-RW and DVD-R.


Can anybody help?


I am interested in MP3 capabilities.


Thanks for your time.

iBook white 12" G4 800 mHz-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 24, 2014 2:00 PM

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Mar 24, 2014 3:03 PM in response to Bruce A

Usually, for an internal optical drive, the specs can be

seen in the System Profiler> Hardware> Disc Burning

area. (In utilities folder, or from 'About this Mac' +more.


User uploaded file


There are a few companies who offer upgrade optical

drives for some of these older iBook/PowerBook G4s

and one of them is macsales.com.


Some third-party software may offer a few options not seen directly

in the applications in your computer; one I've found OK is Burn:

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html


Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

Mar 25, 2014 10:23 PM in response to Bruce A

You may have to research software options to read MP3 from CD if iTunes won't do it.

There are some third party applications or players that could play most anything; even

Quicktime could play some music & video. And some third party replacement optical

drives offer some options unavailable in the original.


And some of those options may depend support

still given old Tiger 10.4.11 and 800MHz iBook...


However I don't know which path is most likely.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

A1054 inBook combo drive specs?

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