New toy updateroo

Man... wtf. Everything's been bad ass, but I've gotta rant a little bit about Pioneer. It seems that the new burner I have, the DVR-109, has had a few firmware upgrades. It also appears that this very same drive may replace the current generation of Superdrives in the coming G4s and G5s.

So someone explain to me why Pioneer hasn't posted Mac-compatible firmware upgrades as of this writing. Come on. The drive is even native under Tiger now, so there isn't any excuse for Pioneer not to simultaneously post both Windows and Mac versions.

Oh, and I refuse to go through the efforts of pulling this drive out of my machine and hooking it up to a PC just to upgrade the firmware. That's the lame solution many sites are proposing, and that's assuming one also owns or has access to a Windows PC in the first place.

Normally I wouldn't even care that much either, but the 1.40 firmware update seems to provide some pretty drastic performance and compatibility improvements. With that being said...

Hurry the fuck up, Pioneer. We're waiting.