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DVD burner for laptop

Yes, most will work electrically, but it often won't look as nice as the OE unit unless perhaps you buy one from the same company that made the original. Then you might be able to swap the little hole cover plate onto the end of the drawer.

.bh.
 
For the outrageous price of a internal DVD burner, only a person with money as no object, would buy one. The external versions are faster and less expensive. You should should check out ATs links. Good hunting.
 
pkme2, you're pretty much correct there. price difference that i see is basically about $70 for an internal, $30 for an external (or so). i really would like it to be mobile, and i think i could get $20 or $30 on ebay for my CDRW/DVD combo drive (ebay uk, people pay more here!).

i have an external enclosure but they're generally a pain in the ass-- already have a 200gb external usb hdd and don't want most of my storage to be external, would like something thats physically on my laptop!!
 
The one compatibility roadblock is drive select configuration. Full-size drives have jumpers for master/slave/cable-select, while notebook drives come factory configured for master, slave, CS, or inverse-CS. You need to get a replacement drive that is configured exactly like the original one.
 
These aren't even jumper settings, necessarily. Often enough, it's hardcoded into the drive's firmware, requiring vendor specific (and publicly unavailable) configuration software to change it.
 
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