Apple SuperDrive tests by Apple

If you haven’t been following the SuperDrive Petition then you might have missed that Apple have taken in my 12” Powerbook for testing. Apple Sydney sent 2 DVD discs down to my AppleStore that I’ve been dealing with on this to test if the drive is indeed faulty. I thought I’d expand this test and also provided 4 blank DVDs to test. The results are very interesting:

• Ritek 8x DVD-R. Available Speeds: 1x, 2x. 26 mins to burn 4Gb.
• Princo 4x DVD-R. Available Speeds: 1x, 2x. 29 mins to burn 4Gb
• Yoshi 8x DVD+R. Available Speeds: 2x. 25 mins to burn 4Gb
• Datacell 4x DVD-R. Available Speeds: 1x, 2x. 29 mins to burn 4Gb
• Apple 8x DVD-R. Available Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x. 12 mins to burn 4Gb
• TDK 16x DVD-R. Available SPeeds: 1x, 2x. 29 mins to burn 4Gb

In summary, only ONE of the discs worked as expected (Apple supplied the last two). These results have been sent to Apple, and I’m awaiting their reply with great interest.