Well, after putting it off for the longest time, I'm finally making copies of all my cd's to use in the car. This was spurred by the fucking thieves that stole about 70 cd's in a cd wallet while ...

Some SuperDrives -- particularly mechanisms manufactured by Matshita (and more specifically the Matshita drives used in the iMac G5) -- do not burn DVDs at rates in the range of the advertised speed.