External Burner for macbook with combo drive and IDVD 6

Hey everybody
I have been thinking of finally utilizing apples IDVD but as mentioned I have a combo drive
so my questions are these
1. What are some suggested external dvd burners for mac
2. What is the process of setting up my mac os 10.4(with latest update) for an external burner

Hi h
1. LaCie seems to be most recommended in this forum. I got a ForMac one
(old but good when copying home brewed DVDs)
2. Set-up ? Should work. Only thing that might be problematic is that using
iDVD is a hard disk space needing/consuming activity.
My goal is to at least free up 25Gb on the internal hard disk (iDVD uses only this)
after I've prepared the DVD in iDVD.
No USB/USB2 external hard disk drives - if needed use FireWire one.
Yours Bengt W

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