[ruechaos]

Are you sure it's DVD-RW? Or was it DVD-RAM? On my Mac I have a DVD-R and a DVD-RAM drives. DVD-RAM is basicly like DVD-RW, where you can rewrite information to a DVD as many times as you want. Downside to DVD-RAM is that it's not formatted to work in a standard DVD-video player if you wanted to make your own DVDs. You can get the discs for 10-20$, and is an awesome means for backing up files. (4.7 GB of files)

DVD-R is a format that works on most second-gen DVD players, and all third-gen DVD video players. You still get 4.7 GB of storage, but it's not rewritable. I currently get DVD-R media for 7$.

You can get a DVD-burner for about 550$ now. Not too bad...

And in answer to the computer question, I remember that the Pentium 3 used to have code specific features attributed to it. All I remember Intel using it for was a website to show off some 3D internet stuff.....pretty lame.... Also back when the Pentium with MMX came out, there were a few programs that needed MMX to run. I think it's totally possible to make a program only work for a specific processor.

If this is a program that you just can't live without, by all means, upgrade to a new system, but first make sure that you need to.

What program is it by chance?