Compaq CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo drive

Advantages: Good spec, excellent value, nice looking.
Disadvantages: Some minor niggles, spec could be better.

...that perhaps could do with improvement. Hard Drive: 30gb, relatively small I suppose but as far as laptops go it's about average. My desktop PC has a 12.7gb drive and I'm only just reaching crisis point with its capacity after about 5 years. I guess if you're gonna be doing broadband downloading you might want to consider larger but in my opinion its just right. Also it's very fast so accessing programs and loading the OS is speedy. Disk Drives: DVD-Rom and CD-RW combo drive, Floppy disk drive. Well that covers all the bases. Backwards compatibility with the floppy is useful and getting rarer, and pretty much all the bases are covered by the combo drive. I guess you may want a DVD-R drive but bear in mind this is only an £800 machine. Video/Sound: 14.1" TFT-LCD screen, 64mb shared graphics memory, on-board sound. The screen is bright... Read review

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Advantages: Value for Money, Upgradeability, Customer Service.
Disadvantages: No Major Disadvantages

...This server is starting the trend of affordable home and small office servers. For just over £100 you can now get this fully functional server without an operating system. This smart looking tower contains a good specification of components for the price, including an AMD Dual-Core Opteron 1210 1.8Ghz Processor with 2MB Cache that is capable of multitasking. 1GB Ram as standard upgradeable to a full 8GB (Please note that 32 Bit operating systems only support upto 3.5GB RAM). The Option of SATA or IDE storage devices. This includes 1x 160GB SATA Hard Drive. A CD-RW - DVD-ROM Combo (DVD-RW not included). This also has good networking capabilities with 1x Gigabit Ethernet port. This also has on board graphics with the option to upgrade via your PCI express slot. With a 3year next business day on-site warranty you can't get better value... Read review

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Advantages: its an all in one
Disadvantages: can be noisy at times!

...of that machine. But like all PC parts it got faster, it could do more, and the prices were falling by the month. That was 6 years ago and my has time flown since then. With customer demand came customer satisfaction. No longer do we need loads of everything when nowadays you can put it all in one box Why buy more than you need eh? Exactly! So why buy a CD-RW and a DVD-Rom when you can get all you need in one machine, just like this Samsung CD-RW/DVD-ROM. It makes sense to buy this because look at the money your saving instead of buying 2 drives. Now you can free up a drive bay on your PC and utilise it a lot better e.g. why not put a DVD burner in to go with your new DVD-ROM. Making back-ups 'on-the-fly' is a dream with the Samsung. It can read DVD's at 16X which is standard reading speed for DVD's. It can burn CD-R's at a staggering... Read review

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