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Win a MacBook Air, Superdrive & Roxio Toast 9!

This month MacFormat has teamed up with Roxio to offer one lucky reader a brand new MacBook Air, complete with an external SuperDrive and Roxio’s MacFormat Choice award-winning Toast 9 Titanium software.

Toast has just been updated to version 9 and has for a long time been the best disc-burning software for a Mac. A Mac, of course, is a perfectly good place to burn discs without Toast, but the software dramatically expands your options. We use it here at MacFormat to test our DVDs before sending them out to readers. For home use, though, it can spread large volumes of data across multiple discs perfectly and format and verify different types of files for different end uses, thereby guaranteeing that the disc will play back flawlessly in a car, or output video content so it plays back on your iPod or iPhone.

Over the years Toast has scooped up new functions as it’s matured. It now provides Blu-ray support, so you can burn Blu-ray media from a Mac to a compatible external drive. It also has excellent music mixing and editing tools that let you drop, mix, blend and add markers to audio discs. For movies, aside from importing and exporting video in different formats, it can chop movies into chapters, then burn the footage to DVD while adding a menu for quick searching. Perhaps above and beyond all this is the trust that Toast has in the community. It’s a Mac stalwart and has no near competitors that come to mind.