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Sony straddles the DVD fence
News Sony is also one of the key members of the DVD+RW Alliance, a group formed to develop and promote the format. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and discs, which should be available to consumers by the end...
[November 26, 2001, 9:56]
Toshiba Satellite 5200-701 review
Reviews XGA (1,024 by 768) screen and a DVD/CD-RW combo drive instead, and this makes it somewhat cheaper (£1,701 ex. This can hold various optical drive options, although with a DVD/CD-RW combo already built into the system, it’s most likely to get used...
[November 25, 2002, 10:36]
Apple delivers top-of-line Mac
News The 733MHz Power Mac G4 is available for $3,499 with 256KB of Level 2 on-chip cache and 1MB of Level 3 backside cache; 256MB of RAM; a 60GB Ultra ATA/100 hard disk drive; an Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics accelerator with 32MB video SDRAM; a CD-RW...
[February 20, 2001, 7:54]
Dell Inspiron 8600: a first look review
Reviews The Inspiron 8600 has a spec sheet that reads like a Who's Who list of components: a 1.7GHz Pentium M processor; a 15.4in.wide-aspect display; up to 2GB of DDR RAM; hard drives up to 80GB; optical drive choices that include a DVD+R/RW drive; and...
[September 2, 2003, 16:16]
Evesham Axis 1200 DDR Ultra review
Reviews It has two optical media drives, a Pioneer DVD-115 16-speed DVD-ROM player and a TEAC CD-RW drive that reads CD-ROMs at up to 32-speed and writes CD-R media at up to 12-speed. From the outside, the Axis 1200 DDR Ultra looks much like any other.
[February 26, 2001, 23:00]
Apple iMac G5: a first look review
Reviews Opt for either of the two higher-end models, and you get a DVD-R drive, as opposed to the base model's DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive, although both drives feature the ever-cool slot-loading mechanism rather than the typical disk tray.
[September 1, 2004, 8:15]
Apple iMac G4 (20in., 1.25GHz) review
Reviews Like the 17in.model, the 20-inch iMac comes equipped with an 80GB Western Digital hard drive and Apple's version of the Pioneer DVR-106 DVD-R/CD-RW combo drive, the SuperDrive. For instance, we watched a DVD in a background window while developing...
[February 11, 2004, 8:05]
Sony VAIO PCV-W1 review
Reviews For storage, you get a suitably large 160GB, 7,200rpm Western Digital hard drive, while removable media are handled by a Matshita DVD-R/RW drive, a Memory Stick slot and a Type II PC Card slot. The display casing also houses a DVD burner, on the...
[October 8, 2003, 11:50]
Sony VAIO PCV-RX1 review
Reviews The PCV-RX1 is well equipped, fitted with DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives, a Memory Stick slot, three USB ports and two IEEE 1394-compatible i.LINK ports. Windows XP Home is installed as standard, and this includes support for CD-R and CD-RW drives, so no...
[February 4, 2002, 23:00]
Acer’s 17in.-screen notebook review
Reviews There will be a DVD/CD-RW combo drive, with DVD-R to come later. Acer has announced a new range of notebooks. Nothing particularly surprising about that -- notebooks are part of Acer's core business. But the particular notebooks in the Aspire 1700...
[May 16, 2003, 7:30]
Acer TravelMate 4501WLMi review
Reviews The media bay on the left-hand side is home to a QSI DVD+/-R/RW drive in our review unit, but this will accept a second 80GB hard drive (£199 ex. This combination of display and GPU makes the TravelMate 4501WLMi a decent DVD-watching and gaming...
[October 19, 2004, 13:35]
Apple makes 54Mbps standard on eMac
News By comparison, Hewlett-Packard's $899 Pavilion 735n comes with a 2.13GHz Athlon XP 2600+ processor from Advanced Micro Devices, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, a 80GB hard drive, a DVD+R/RW drive, a 48X CD-ROM drive, an Nvidia GeForce4 MX graphics accelerator...
[May 6, 2003, 16:01]
Apple iMac G5 review
Reviews The top two models have SuperDrives (DVD-R/CD-RW), while the bottom iMac G5 includes a combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW). Design To tell the truth, we're not sure why the iMac needed this redesign. The move from the first-generation iMac to the second...
[October 11, 2004, 10:20]
Toshiba Portégé A100 review
Reviews The integrated optical drive provides 8X DVD play, 24X CD-ROM play and 24X/24X for CD-R/RW. One thing to watch though: playing a feature film on DVD won’t leave much battery charge left for work during the rest of your journey.
[May 4, 2004, 10:00]
Poweroid 8001 review
Reviews There are two optical drives -- a Toshiba 16-speed DVD-ROM and a Lite-On CD-RW drive. In our review sample, the latter had a CD-R write speed of 24X, a CD-RW rewrite speed of 10X and a CD-ROM read speed of 40X.
[August 21, 2002, 11:44]
Constellation 3D could be disc storage star
News FMD discs hold many times more data than a standard DVD. Unlike DVD discs which are often double-sided, there is no interference between layers on an FMD disc and theoretically one could store data on up to one hundred layers.
[August 16, 2000, 12:05]
Backup Exec Desktop Pro v4.5 review
Reviews VAT) Desktop version adds support for Zip/Jaz, LS-120, PD and DVD-RAM drives, file exclusion, password protection, unattended backup and 'automated data protection'. VAT) product provides automatic device detection, support for a wide range of...
[February 12, 2001, 23:00]
Gateway returns to ultra-portable market
News Both the NX100X and the E-100M will start at $1,399 (£804.90), but the NX100X comes with an external multiformat DVD-R/RW drive that costs $199 extra for business customers of the E-100M. Gateway is returning to the ultra-portable notebook market...
[March 30, 2006, 9:45]
Broken Windows Part 2
Blog Its a DELL GX620 with 4GB of DDR2 RAM, nearly 1TB of total HDD space on 4 drives, a CDRW drive and a DVD R/RW drive. Something happened to the XP Pro workstation at work in the last couple of weeks and it has progressively gotten worse.
[March 23, 2009, 7:51]
Apple Power Mac G5 review
Reviews All three machines come with Apple's new 4X CD-RW/DVD-R (SuperDrive). For less than 30 minutes last week, the specifications and prices of the newly announced Apple G5 were accidentally posted on the Apple Web site.
[June 24, 2003, 7:11]
