It did not like it too much (did it in fits and starts) but if you have buffer underun protected drives (most all of them) it WILL work.
took about 90 minutes to burn :-)
your 450 should have absolutely NO PROBLEM burning a DVD. my original laptop (400mhz dell) did not even blink doing it.
now actually mastering DVD content. you can do it (I did it) it just will not be all that fast.
as for obsolescence. the technology is not obsolete (as in obsolete in the way peopel here are using the word)
even in the case of say a mail station machine the technology is not obsolete. e-mail still works the same and so does the modem. you can dial in TODAY with a 9600 baud modem. even a 2400 baud modem. I know I DO (I still have my sony magic link which comes with this modem and I can still connect with it and read my mail)
but remember its our desires that becomes obsolete. when the infrastructure changes so that say a modem does not work the modem did not go obsolete. the infrastructure was taken away and this MADE the modem obsolete. sure its semantics but its important in this case.
the idea that you can have 2 different modems that connect to the same kind of line and use the same basic protocols and have the same basic performance and have ONE of them become obsolete in a year and the other NOT become obsolete is just silly.
if one is still good then the other MUST still be good as since we already stated they were basically the same.
so a 1995 PC that can go toe and toe with a 1995 mac is our next example.
if the 1995 mac is still good today they so MUST the pc.
you say well that pc can not run windows xp. well duh it was not designed for it now your changing the rules. that mac can not run OSX.
but the mac the way it came will do what it did then the same today. so will the PC.
yet that is what the others here are trying to claim. that somehow magically in their reality distortion field the 5 year old PC is somehow obsolete yet the 5 year old mac is not. total hogwash.
mac zealotry.
Chris Taylor