Eric Lai - 2001-01-24

Fast new Macs at a Steve Jobs keynote presentation are always good for column inches, but Apple Computer Inc.'s most far-reaching announcement at this month's Macworld Expo/San Francisco was an also-ran with most of the mainstream press: the company's embrace of DVD authoring as a cornerstone capability of its latest Macs.
Apple announced that its high-end Power Mac G4 models, due in March, will ship with DVD SuperDrives from Pioneer that can not only read and write CD-R and DVD-R discs but create video discs for consumer-level DVD players.

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