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Travo925

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I am aware that many of you here aren't mac fans, but I have a question regarding one of their apps, iDVD. I am looking to purchase a new laptop; and the 1.2Ghz, 12" ibook is looking pretty good. However, it doesn't come with a built in superdrive (DVD/DVDRW), neither is the superdrive a built to order option. I would like to take advantage of all the available software which would come with my new mac, and one of the applications that is preloaded on the mac is iDVD; which is included in the iLife suite. Due to the fact that the ibook I am looking at doesn't come with the superdrive, it won't be able to burn the projects in which I make in iDVD. However, in iDVD, you can archive your project as a disc image (.dmg I believe, I don't know if that is a mac only format). I was wondering if after I archive my project, can I either burn it onto a cd or copy it to an external hard drive, and take it to my Sony Vaio and just burn the disc image file to a DVD. Is that all I need to do? A simple drag and drop onto the dvd which is in my burner? Any help would be appreciated because I don't want to buy this laptop and not be happy with it.
 
Well i found this on another forum... Im not a mac user, dont know much about the terminal but here ya go..

"Just wanted to note for the record: what I said above about converting .dmg files to versions burnable on a PC (this conversion must be done on a mac) can be performed by entering the following command in the terminal:

hdiutil convert cdimage.dmg -format UDTO -o cdimage.iso

(replacing the dcimage.dmg and cdimg.iso with the appropriate file names, of course).

Just wanted to make that clear for all."

Yes a .iso is windows file...
 
Alright...When I convert the .dmg over the and iso image I should be able just to simply burn it onto the dvd on the windows machine, correct? If so...Do I just burn it on by making a data disc?? And if that is done, will that work in the dvd player.
 
You folow the instruction from the other forum, the image is converted to a .iso on mac, burn it to a disc, network computers together (I guess that would work)... somehow get the .iso to windows. Then use alcohol 120% and burn the image to a cd.. Yes alcohol 120% has a free trial... http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/
 
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timmah01 said:
i wanted an ibook but i did research and i found out i could get alot more than what they offered
Click to expand...

Well I have a powerbook g4, just wanted to upgrade to a newer ibook, I have software for my mac, and dont particularly feel like going out to buy the windows versions for all of it.
 
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