New Power Mac G5s with Dual-Layer SuperDrives

Jeff Carlson on April 27, 2005

Apple announced new Power Mac G5 models today, speed bumping the processors and lowering prices.

In addition to more power, all models except the low-end single 1.8 GHz configuration include dual-layer SuperDrives, which can burn up to 8.5 GB of data (or three hours of MPEG-2 video). According to Apple’s Power Mac G5 page, iDVD can handle the higher-capacity discs, something I’ve not seen as a capability for iDVD. I’ve asked my contact at Apple to clarify, but so far it seems that iDVD will handle it, which is very cool. However, I don’t know if commercial DVD players can read dual-layer discs.

[Update: According to my source at Apple, dual-layer DVD support was added in the iDVD 5.0.1 update released earlier this month.]

Published by Jeff Carlson

Author, photographer, and late-nighter Jeff Carlson writes for outlets such as Macworld, DPReview, Creative Pro, and others, and is a contributing editor for TidBITS. He is the author of Take Control of Your Digital Photos; The Photographer's Guide to Luminar, Apple Watch: A Take Control Crash Course; and The iPad for Photographers, among many other titles.

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