Title: Macintosh Compatible - Sort of
Product review: I'm sure this a fine DVD Writer for PC users, but the Plextor claim of compatibility with Macintosh is really very limited. You will need to run OS X.4 or higher if you want use the Macintosh Finder to burn discs. Even then, it doesn't work very well and fails on burns frequently. Plextor will tell you to spend $100 on Toast software. Well guess what, the price of this drive just doubled. I was also told both by Plextor and by Dantz who makes Retrospect software prior to buying it that this drive should work with Retrospect. It doesn't. Dantz has since said they are working on a fix, but when that will happen is uncertain. I called Plextor and their technician's solution was spend $100 on Toast and say it's my computers fault. My advice for Mac users is to stick with companies such as LaCie and Iomega that offer drivers and don't blame the Macintosh OS if there's a problem.
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