Is there an External Superdrive dvd burner available for an iBook G4?

I'd like to make DVDs of a presentation, but my iBook doesn't have a SuperDrive.
Should I use the iMovie or iDVD application to create the presentation?
Do peripheral external DVD burners or SuperDrives exist?
Or is there another way of making DVD copies...(Like ordering iBook picture albums from iPhoto?)
Thanks!!

You can simply google for that; I'm sure there'll be plenty - just make sure it specifically states that it is compatible with Mac and the OS version you are running. I've had a LaCie for a number of years; it is self powered with FW port (they no longer make this one unfortunately); here is their non-Bluray option they have now:
http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10058
(Personally, I prefer self powered instead of bus powered). They also sell Bluray burners.

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http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10058
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When the drive is plugged in, what does Apple System Profiler say about Firewire or USB devices? It could be the enclosure is working but the drive itself is bad.
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<http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/steve-jobs-calls-blu-ray-a-bag-of-hurt/>
and (from hardmac.com):
"Steve did not change his mind and still think that BD DRM are just inacceptable for mass and consumer market due to restrictions that make advantages look like non competitive. He admitted that retrospectively he feels ashamed that Apple’s name is associated to Blu-ray, as he thinks that BD supporting associations look today more like M*fia than anything else. Concerning authoring on Blu-ray, it seems impossible to provide software supporting such format for consumer market. In addition to DRM, here it is the cost of licenses that slow down the entire process; one would have to start paying 3,000 USD to AACS, then 80,000 USD to Sony, 40,000 USD to Sonic, etc. HE considers the Blu-ray as a “bag of hurt”."
(* = a The full M word is rejected.)
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MCE includes a trial version of Blu-ray player software with their drive. (It's out of date but will update to the current version.)
<http://www.macblurayplayer.com>
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I burn a lot of music to CD (demos for my music that I send out every few months). I've heard a lot of bad things about the internal DVD burner on MacBooks going shot, and I've heard it's an expensive fix.
Since mine is still working totally fine, I wanted to preserve it by purchasing an external USB DVD burner for my heavy music burning.
This Rosewill unit over at Newegg seems to get a lot of positive reviews:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16827190020
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16827190020
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I have a (very old) 15' Macbook Pro which I've upgraded with an SSD and OS X 10.6.8. The only problem I'm currently having is getting an external CD/DVD burner to work correctly.
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I have a LaCie external CD/DVD burner (301484U) which I use a replacement for the SuperDrive that died in my Powerbook 15" DL, connecting by Firewire. Lately, instead of mounting CDs, it causes the cddafs.util file to take up whatever is left of my CPU sending it into 100% use. Ejecting using F12 and using the button on the drive to eject no longer work. I have to turn the drive off and turn it back on again to eject the disc.
I will ask LaCie too but wanted to see what anyone might say here as well. The drive is relatively new, bought in September. Sometimes CDs mount, sometimes they don't.
I'd be happy to supply more info but am not sure what is needed at this point.
One weird thing happened that might be related. Yesterday I was recording a record to be made into a CD using Final Vinyl and in the middle of the recording it gave me a blue screen with two sets of vertical black lines, freezing the machine. I rebooted and all was fine. I ran Disk Utility and other than a few permissions needing to be fixed, all was well. Nothing interesting in the trash upon restart.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
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