LaCie d2 user manual Your LaCie Drive, Minimum System Requirements, Mac Users

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2. Your LaCie Drive

User’s Manual

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2. Your LaCie Drive

2.1. Minimum System Requirements

Mac Users

Hardware Requirements –

Computer equipped with a FireWire interface card.

Tech Note: Mac Users!

DVD Playback:

At the time of publication (September, 2005), Apple only supports DVD playback on Macintosh computers with a built-in DVD-ROM drive. If your system does not have a built-in DVD- ROM drive, in order to enable DVD playback you will need to utilize a third-party utility.

System Requirements –

Single/Double Layer Recording

4.7GB or 8.5GB Single/Double Layer disc

700MHz G4 or later

Mac OS 10.2.9 or later

64MB of RAM (256MB recommended)

QuickTime 6 or later

Toast Titanium 7

Power Mac G4 or later

Moc OS 10.3.9 or higher

300 MB disk space

QuickTime 7.0 or later

Recordable CD or DVD media

Apple Disc Recording Updater: In order to provide maximum compatibility with Apple software products, LaCie is constantly providing drive support updates. Visit our Web site, www.lacie.com/support, choose Optical from the pull-down menu and download the LaCie DiscRecording Support for Mac OS X 10.3.2 or later to add LaCie drive support to

Important Info: MPEG encoding is a system intensive application and requires most of a CPU’s power. This process can take several hours on slower systems.

Additional Requirements for DVD playback and Pre-Mastering – Monitor resolution of 1024 x 768, 24-bit color

Additional Requirements for DV Capturing and DVD Authoring – Minimum of 128MB of RAM (256MB is recommended)

1GB of free hard disk space for every 5 minutes of DV video capture 4.5GB of free hard disk space for copying a single layer DVD-Video disc 8GB of free hard disk space for copying a double layer DVD-Video disc

applications that utilize Apple’s DiscRecording framework. These include, but are not limited to, the following applications: Finder, iTunes, iPhoto, Backup, Disk Utility and DVD

Important Info: To ensure optimal recording results, avoid copying from a CD or DVD and record directly from a hard drive that supports sustained data transfer rates for the following speeds:

• 16x = 22.16MB/s • 8x = 11.08MB/s • 4x = 5.54MB/s • 2x = 2.77MB/s • 1x = 1.385MB/s

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