Experience with burning dvds on tibook 400

I'm looking to upgrade my tibook 400 to a dvd-rw drive. Just wondering if the others have upgraded their drives and have experience burning dvds on a tibook. Is it unbearably slow and also are the burns reliable to you get a lot of coasters.
thanks in advance

I have not upraded a powerbook but I recently put one of the newest NEC superdrives in my POWERMAC G4 466mhz, which is similar speed mac to your powerbook, and can honestly say its exceeded my expectations by some margin. To put the speed in to perspective it can burn a 600mb CDR in about 2 mins. It does DVDs in a pretty reasonable time. I think the speed is more related to the dvd drive, not your processor (although I may be wrong). You also need quite alot of hard drive space as data has to be stored there first.
I use Toast Titanium to burn which seems much more reliable than the Finder and I wholeheartedly recommend. I have had no dvd coasters on the small number ive done, although I used to get lots of cd coasters with the old CDRW which it replaced.
ibook G3 PowerMac G4 Powerbook G4 Airport BS Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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