Advantages: Very cheap, intelligent electronics keep wasted disks to a minimum Disadvantages: None so far. How long can something this cheap last?
-RW and 24 speed read machine, was, as I?ve said, a good machine at the time of purchase, but it?s replacement, an AOpen CRW5224, is only costing me a shade over £30 (yes thirty!) from www.dabs.com, AND it?s got a maximum write speed to CD-R of 52x, making full CD copies possible in just a few minutes, and I do mean a few. AOpen may well be more familiar to you as the makers of motherboards. Even if this machine only lasts the 12-month guarantee period and no longer, it?ll only cost me 66p a week to own (as for the DVD player, the most that can cost me is 50p a week thanks to the 2-year warranty). Every month beyond the first year is a bonus for the AOpen, and if it lasts as long as the Yamaha, it?ll cost me about 22p a week.
Anyway, that?s got the skinflint bits out of the way. What?s it like to install and use?
A BIT OF THE OLD ?IN OUT ...
BNibbles 07.10.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of AOpen CRW 5224
Advantages: Cheap and reliable Disadvantages: Cost me a lot of money by destroying my computer
Okay, i'll start by just giving a few details about the drive. It can read DVDs at 16x, which means that it can read data 16 times faster than is needed just to play a DVD film and it can read CDs at 48x, 48 times faster than is required to play CDs. The one I had came with my first computer and worked fine, it read CDs and DVDs without any trouble and was even able to read some badly-written CDRs than only CD writers are usually good enough to read. It made the occassional clunky sound, but most DVD drives do. The drive has an IDE interface and an internal audio header for connecting to a sound card. Here comes the horror story though, so settle down with some cocoa and a cookie.
Ever since I bought my computer, it randomly locked up on a regular basis, usually whenever I used it to play games, so I assumed it was just ...
benben_uk 09.04.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of AOpen DVD 1648
Advantages: Extremely quite, beautiful machine Disadvantages: CPU Cooling fan & the floppy drive connector are placed
The latest craze in the computer world is miniture computer systems first introduced to us as the 'Shuttle' system. Since then many have taken a stab at this market and the EZ18 is AOpens answer to the call.
The EZ18 comes in two colours to my knowledge (pearl white, and slick black)so its possible to accessorise according to your personal preference. I myself went for the slick black (or piano black as my friend calls it) with the glowing blue power button. I bought mine from Microdirect for about £148.
Unlike some of its counterparts (the shuttle system, BioStar system) the EZ18 is more of a cube rather than a single story tower and it comes with the bare essentials (partly why they have been called 'barebone' systems). It comes with the motherboard which holds the sound card aswell as the on board graphics(i think its nVidia n ...
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The AOpen DVD-520S, DVD-RAM drive is an ideal storage device for archiving the large multimedia database, reading/ writing visual data with large capacity, low bit cost, compatibility, and removability. Data rewrites are accurate and fast. DVD-RAM provides a bridge between home audio/video and computers, and expand the range of general, business and personal applications.
