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- NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23"And so what if I made a typo, don't you have anything better to do than worry about 1 single alphabet that's gone missing?"
Oh my God, an entire alphabet is missing? Alert the authorities! - Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"Ever wanted to laser etch some labels onto DVDs you've burned, but wanted to do it on your Mac?" Not with lightscribe.
Seriously, whomever has used lightcribe before knows for a fact that it sucks. Taking twenty minutes to write "DISC 1 - COLLECTION OF MISC STUFF" on one side is NOT useful. Added to the fact that the media costs more, it's pretty much useless. I, personally, just stick with labels of I *need* something comprehensible to be written on the CD-R/RW, otehrwise I just sharpie it up. - iluvhatemail, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10LightScribe works great! 1000x better than the black sharpie. I can see how it would be a waste if you were using it on the pirated movies you download, but my clients freak out when I hand them work on a custom disc.
- bleonard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8My roomate has had an external firewire Lacie DVD burner with "LightScribe" hooked up to both a G4 PowerMac and later a PowerBook for the last 2 years. Just use software other than LaCie's if you want to "LightScribe".
- travhimself, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Hmm... I've had my Lightscribe drive for about a year, and I've been using the bundled LaCie software successfully for about a year...
What's new here? Am I missing something?
And Recuso2: with the proper settings, you can burn a line of text in just a couple minutes. A full-surface burn takes 20 minutes. - fantasticjon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I was totally psyched the monthes before lightscibe came out waiting for it. I thought it was going to be awesome. I finally got the drive. what a let down. the major bummer is that they claimed that the media would be pennies more thatn standard media. yeah. like 30 pennies. A 50 pack of premium CD-R is like 6 or 7 bucks now. Lightscribe CD-Rs are like $30 for 50. What a rip.
- Ennoch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Precisely. Lightscribe is for when you have to hand somebody a DVD, and you want them to remember it.
- gruisinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There were.
- swaxhog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're not translating marketing speak. It's pennies more to make means it's dollars more profit for the company.
- mikeflynn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was going to say...I've had an external Lacie burner for awhile capable of writing LightScribe. Never used that functionality but always assumed it was there.
- DarthPilatus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have had an internal lightscribe drive for about 2 years now (and I bought it from the official Apple reseller Nextbyte here in Australia!).
I use it every week to produce discs for clients, burn dvd's (putting the official DVD disc images on it) plus when i do a photo backup, I print a thumbnail view screen capture to quickly see what's on it.
Title: 4 mins
Content: 9 mins
Full: 19 mins
If it is any slower, get the firmware and software upgrades.
Oh, and anyone who uses it to put "DISC 1 - COLLECTION OF MISC STUFF" is just dumb, get a sharpie. - colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I used this very software months and months ago. Why is this "new"?
- carnaval13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The official PR from LaCie states that it's the LINUX support that's new. Not the Mac support.
http://www.lacie.com/company/news/news.htm?id=10293 - WalterDirt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4No you can proofreed.
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I would like to see the LightScribe system standard on the Mac platform. Then Apple could sell their own LightScribe branded discs and have a better attachment rate at the Apple Stores.
I wonder if/when LaCie will ship LightScribe HD DVD or Blu-Ray drives... - Auzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1COMPLETELY INACCURATE!!!
Digg this crap down.
Its funny, cause I've been working at an applecentre for the past 2 years, and Lacie has supported Lightscribe on Mac since it became mainstream, maybe even since the beginning. All I know is that for the past year, I've sold lots of lacie lightscribe enabled drives, which definately support macs.
Also, Lightscribe is kind of crappy. Why not just get a printer which can print on CD's? That way you at least have colour. - elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LightScribe on Macs has been available for a while now. LaCie released a DVD burner with LightScribe support and software almost a year ago. How do I know? I have one in my G5.
The only news here is that now you can burn a LightScribe CD in Linux.
Title should be "LightScribe laser-etching drives come to Linux" - alantocheri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is everyone that's saying they've used lightscribe on their macs before referring to external drives? How can someone check to see if their drive is compatible? (about this mac>rom> get model number.. look up on google?)
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I'm kinda confused here...the announcement from LaCie was on the 17th and it was for both Mac and Linux. I have just installed the Linux Lighscribe software and it seems to run fine. Very easy to use too.
- madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a LightScribe Drive for my PC - I used it exactly once with the one writable CD that came with the system.
Especially since Labelling is slower then burning the data, I'm not gonna use this again. - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lightscribe takes forever to do a decent label
- elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The LaCie drive has shipped with Mac compatible LightScribe software for at least a year now.
- Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's spamalicious! Buried.
- mrdlcastle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was going to say the same thing, travhimself, I have had it for about as long and been using the software without incident.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There weren't other ways you could burn a lightscribe image on a Mac before this?
- axisds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The idea of lightscribe seems to fit well with everything apple and I suppose if you have the money to buy such an expensive computer you could probably afford the lightscribe disks.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Actually I've always thought lightscribe was horribly ugly and never bothered with it.
Give me a $100 printer, CD labels and a stomper anyday.
Jimzip :D - jackal230, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For trivial stuff, lightscribe is pretty useless. However, I use it to print images on my dvd-rips, and I like the black on gold look even if it does take a while (sometimes you have have to double burn the image to get more contrast). Last I checked, cds only shipped in gold. They are planning to add a silver or something, but I forget.
As for the price, I just stock up whenever I find it cheap. I got a lot of 15packs for $5 each. (Lightscribe deals - http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18&threadid=500107 )
I am considering just getting a printer and printable cds/dvds, since it does save a lot of time. - Kurto2021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lightscribe stinks....I bought a Canon Pixma 3000 for $30 did a firmware hack and created my own tray and now I am printing CDs. Not bad for $30 and about 2hrs worth of work.
The 2 hours worth of work is more than made up for after about 5 lightscribe burns. It took about 30 minutes to etch an image on the disk. I could have taken it to an artist and had him paint it faster than that. - punx45, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0the article also mentioned support for linux. 1 less reason to boot back into windows. hopefully someone will take the lacie linux software, and adapt it to other drives. may I suggest the HP DVD640...
- garbelini, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Printers with direct CD/DVD printing make lightscribe look like stone carving.
- fredegamer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I believe you meant to say "Alert the Internet!"
- LMN8R, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2........but it'll be shiny and cost twice as much!
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Obviously...it was posted in the Apple section.. duh.
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -17/+13The name's Smaran, not "Brad." And so what if I made a typo, don't you have anything better to do than worry about 1 single alphabet that's gone missing?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Wow brilliant observation moron. Do you get paid to be Digg's editor in chief? Or do you just get off on cheap shots?
Comment buried. - TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -17/+9He missed a key, get over it.
As far as LightScribe, the fact that it requires special discs makes it too impractical. - SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Not to mention, all of those words, including the complete phrase, are all English. ;)
- digitalpanda, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0for those of us who use a Mac platform, this is great news! Now those "DVD backups" will be a lot more interesting! Not to mention home movies, etc
- DollaDollaBill, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6how is this less than interesting news on the front page with 29 diggs?
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