Burner for laptop? Help before my roomate buys an IOmega.

[glen]

He thinks IOMEga is the tits since his boss told him and his boss is a PHd. ALl I know is Plextor for a regular PC. What should he get?

 

[IamDavid]

Anything but IOMEGA.

 

[bacillus]

this press realease may be of some help

"...Logitech announced the shipping of their latest "LCW-T1210BU" 8/8/8 USB CDR-W drive which also supports BURN-Proof technology from March 1st. The price of the drive is around 35,000 Yen (295$). The drive supports both Win9x/Win2k and MAC OS 8.6 - 9.1. Logitech has also another external USB/SCSI recorder called "DuoPort" but they also released this model in order to be cheaper (since it supports only USB connection). The drive uses TEAC mechanisms and weights 2.5kg. Last the attached CDR software is the "WincCDR Standard Edition", "MaccCDR, and last "PacketMan" (for packet writing)..."

 

[chuckieland]

don't even know logitech produce cdrw
are those only in japan or available in canada too

 

[PCAddict]

Does he have firewire on the laptop? There are some nice burners out there that use firewire.

 

[glen]

ANyone else know who makes nice CD drives for laptops?

 

[stonecold3169]

Is the logitech 8x only through USB 2.0, or does it support it through PC card? I find this interesting, as I thought it was limited to a transfer of 4x.

 

[Pariah]

Any external USB/firewire/SCSI cdrw drive will work provided you have the proper interface available on your laptop, be it by default or with a pccard.

 

[Ian@CDRlabs]

That Logitech drives have been available only in Japan so far. I wish some websites would say that when they put those press releases up.

I've found that the USB bus, when doing low power transfers, maxes out at about 6.4x or about 960k.. much short of its 1.5mb maximum speed.

The new Iomega Predator looks cool. I have not gotten one from Iomega but I like its modular design where you can use USB 1.1 or 2.0, FireWire and PCMCIA if you want.

 

[glen]

ANyone else have any opinions?

 

[loogie]

hp m8200e
panasonic kxlrw10a

both are 4x4x20. They are the size of portable cd players.

 

[dcdomain]

For only $100 more than comparable laptop burners, this Sony is smaller (the size of a regular cd player), plays mp3 cds, and normal cds.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=369906