MacBook optical drive burns DVDs and CDs very slowly

When I burn DVD or CD in Mac OS everything flows normally. DVD 4,7 Gb takes about 15-2o minutes, verifying included. When I try to do the same in the Windows XP platform, it last more than one and half hour. I use Nero burning software. Does anybody has similar troubles or some solutions for my issue.
Boris

Thank you very much for your answers. Well, you know, I'm from Europe and I'm used to use Windows for several years. My MacBook is my wedding present and It's one beautifull, good and quality "gadget". I saw many good and intuitive solutions in Mac OS, but I simply don't have enough time to learn a new operating system. So, I made a 100Gb big windows partition and everything works just fine, except unnormal lenght of DVD writing. I also suspect that my problem has something to do with the drivers supplied by Apple for the drive, but one of the guys on our forum has MacBook Pro and no problems with writing DVDs in windows. So ... what can I do. Buy an external drive? It's a non sympatic idea at all . Thx anyway, if you maybe know, how could I get appropriates drivers for Windows ... I'd appreciate it a lot.
Sorry, if I make grammar mistakes, my residence is Slovenia, Europe

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