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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]
Dell Inspiron 8000 review
Reviews When configuring the Inspiron 8000, you specify one built-in, non-removable optical drive -- CD, DVD or CD-RW -- on the left-hand side. Despite the number of pixels that have to be moved around during video playback at this extremely high...
[December 4, 2000, 23:00]
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]
University to challenge copyright laws
News See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on DVD-Ram, DVD-RW, zoning and copy protection. Eight movie studios have successfully wielded the DMCA to force 2600 magazine to delete a copy of a DVD-decoding utility from its Web site, and the...
[September 5, 2002, 10:31]
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]
Hi-Grade Notino 2200 review
Reviews Spend another £100 and you can upgrade the DVD drive to a combo unit with added CD-RW functionality. Fixed storage is provided by a 40GB Hitachi Ultra ATA/100 hard disk with a rotational speed of 4,200rpm, while optical media are handled by an 8X...
[January 28, 2002, 23:00]
Compromise copyright bill in works
News See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on DVD-Ram, DVD-RW, zoning and copy protection. Previous legislative proposals, backed by some Hollywood studios, would have required all digital media players, ranging from DVD players to...
[February 20, 2003, 10:18]
Does Zip have a future?
News He conceded that CD-rewritable (CD-RW) and DVD-recording optical drives have taken a huge lead in the personal storage market. But CD and DVD recording, at 45 percent share, are rapidly closing on the older optical technologies.
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
Dell struggles with PC shipment delays
News The Inspiron 8000 introduced graphics capabilities comparable to those of desktop models and the ability to run DVD and CD-RW drives at the same time, both distinguishing features. Supply problems with 8X CD-RW drives and 32MB graphics cards...
[December 19, 2000, 10:28]
Hush ATX Media PVR review
Reviews Of course, if you're going to record a lot of TV you need a big hard drive and a DVD writer: these are both present and correct, in the form of a fast 160GB Seagate Serial ATA unit with a rotational speed of 7,200rpm and a TEAC DV-W22E DVD-RW drive.
[November 11, 2004, 13:15]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog I will build it on a 2.6 Ghz Celeron system with 512 MB Ram on a stock DELL with a CDRW or a DVD +/- RW drive. Since this system will NOT be playing the DVD or video, we'll live with the on-board SVGA chip and the optical drive is there for...
[May 27, 2007, 6:01]
Poweroid.com 8202 review
Reviews As far as removable media are concerned, there's a fast 16X DVD-ROM drive from Sony, and a multi-format DVD writer from NEC, which writes/rewrites DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW media (at 4X/2.4X and 4X/2X respectively).
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 review
Reviews Where you can beef things up -- if you’re prepared to spend a bit more -- is in areas like choosing faster processors, swapping the combination DVD-ROM drive for a DVD/CD-RW combo, and upgrading the Windows XP Home for the Professional edition.
[September 8, 2003, 8:05]
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]
Ultralight notebooks for your business review
Reviews No single configuration will be right for every business user, but for most, we recommend a thin-and-light with one of the slower Pentium M processors (you'll save a little money without giving up much performance), 256MB of memory, a 20GB hard...
[May 18, 2004, 6:55]
Compaq Evo N150c review
Reviews The DVD-ROM drive is a modular unit, so you can replace it with a CD-RW drive if necessary. TFT display, a 15GB hard drive and a DVD-ROM drive. The modem connector, one of the USB sockets and the PC Card slots are on the left-hand side, and the DVD...
[October 29, 2001, 23:00]
Dell Dimension 8300 review
Reviews Digital video hobbyists looking to make use of the 8300's muscle will enjoy the speedy 4X DVD+RW drive that Dell included on our evaluation unit. In addition, our 8300 included a 16X DVD drive, a Creative Audigy 2 sound card and a 120GB, 7,200rpm...
[May 16, 2003, 15:14]
Virtual Mania Part 2
Blog Setup the DVD-/+RW drive and the DVD ROM drive on the target system as drives in the VMs. I think DebbieToo (a Debian 4.0 Home Server) is going to get a “make-over”. She's been outstandingly reliable.
[January 26, 2009, 7:55]
Acer TravelMate C202TMi review
Reviews On the left edge of the system is a slot-loading DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, a PC Card slot and a 4-in-1 card reader that accepts SD, MMC, Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro cards; the left edge also houses the RJ-45 Ethernet and RJ-11 modem jacks.
[January 4, 2006, 11:35]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P7010 review
Reviews Tucked underneath the CompactFlash and PC Card slots is the 9mm-high CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive in a modular bay. The P7010 runs Windows XP Professional and comes with Acrobat Reader 6, Norton Ghost 2003, Nero 6 (CD/DVD burning) and InterVideo...
[August 16, 2004, 10:35]
