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It's available at all the usual suspects: Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect etc.

If there are two ports, you are certainly allowed to use both. This product will not act as an extender of sorts, but there's nothing restricting you from using the two ports on an iMac.

It's an 8X burner. It can both rip and burn quite easily. The battery is the main uniqueness though. I honestly haven't worn the batter down yet, and I'm not quite sure how. The idea is that the drive saves up extra energy when it's not burning or reading and stores it in the battery. You'd have to burn burn burn to get it to dry up. Suffice…

It sounds like your install went without issue. You'd know if there was a problem. When I first tried to install it, it would never complete. Instead, it would say something like, error, install could not be completed. I honestly don't remember the exact wording. But if the install finished, it should be fine. Now, as to why it shows up blank,…

I'm really sorry for the delay, I've been quite busy as of late. Yes, I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.1. I used driver version 10.5b5, but I imagine that the newest would be the best. I have this unit plugged into a powered USB hub, with both cables. While it did work with just the data cable, I wouldn't recommend this. I hope that helps, but…