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At 11:26 AM +1000 9/23/97, Alden S Klovdahl wrote: >On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 Stefan.Tilkov@mlc.de wrote: > >> Will an IBM DVD drive for a 770 also work in "older" models, e.g. the 765? > >why on earth could anyone possibly want a dvd drive?? > >if you travel internationally, to europe, to asia, anywhere else (as i >suspect a higher proportion of thinkpad owners than others do) you can pick >up a local cd-rom - perhaps language, perhaps cultural, perhaps on some >other topic of interest to you, or with some other functionality not locally >available to you - plop it in to your cd-rom drive, and away you go. > >... the cultures of the world, not subject to prior censorship on the basis >of what someone else thinks your interests are (or should be), what someone >else thinks is suitable for you, what someone thinks is marketable in your > > >home country, are at your fingertips. ...or, at minimum no farther away >than your mailbox. > >now, along comes dvd, and all this changes. dvd disks produced in one global >area will not work in the dvd drive sold to you in your area. so ... you buy >a dvd drive for each area for which you wish to sample the language, culture, >or other offerings? you carry several dvd drives when you travel? No you hack the chip, don't forget to turn off the macrovision copy protection at the same time. I don't see myself, a normally early adopter, buying DVD within the next two to three years unless the software floodgates surprizingly open up. I guess if you need it now, though, you need it now.