Dell 8X IDE DVD-ROM for PowerEdge 750 FS

Advantages: Cheap (around 85£), good quality
Disadvantages: Slow compared to the most recent cd recorders

...Few weeks ago, wondering around the web, looking for something interesting to buy with my beenz, I found this nice cd recorder: Philips PCRW804. It is very easy to install, I just put it in the right slot, connected to the secondary IDE as master (I preferred to leave cd rom on primary IDE as slave, this speeds up data transfer from cd rom to cd recorder), and started my pc. Windows 98 recognised the recorder immadiately, without the need to install any other driver. Philips PCRW804, can write CD-R and CD-RW, it writes CD-R at 8x and CD-RW at 4x; reading speed is 32x. I tested it with many different kinds of CD-R and CD-RW and it didn't give me any problem at all (using Nero 5.5.1.8). This recorder will save a lot of space on your hard disk and will let you bring your software or music anywhere you like!... Read review

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Advantages: Good Graphics and Beautiful Design
Disadvantages: its a dell laptop

...Sleek looking huh? a beautiful design from Dell worn by their Precision M4300. Not only does its exterior look smart but the graphics on this thing are amazing. Pumping away with a 512Mb graphics card from Nvidia makes this little beauty perfect for computer aided design and animation. Specs (assuming your buying new from Dell): Can bought with either Microsoft XP professional or Vista Standard model has Intel dual core processor with speeds ranging from 1.8Ghz (with 2Mb L2 Cache memory) to 2.6 Ghz (with 4Mb L2 Cache memory). LCD screen is 15.4" with option of having anti glare added. Either 1, 2 or 4 Gb SDRAM. Graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M with 512Mb memory (not optional). Hard drive is 80Gb to 200Gb or a 32Gb solid state drive. Standard models comes WITHOUT a optical drive but a choice of either a 8x DVD ROM or a 24x CD RW/DVD... Read review

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Advantages: Best value for money among big brands at time of buying
Disadvantages: One repair needed after 13 months, details below.

...good thing about the Tiny computer was the quality of the speakers, so they connected those, and I got the quality of sound I was used to. Had I not been used to better quality speakers, I probably would have been perfectly happy with the ones Dell supplied. As I suspect some people reading this may want technical details, I will have a go at copying what I think are the most relevant bits from the order form. Midnight Grey Mini-Tower with 8 USB 2.0 ports, 3 PCI slots and AGP 8 x slot Hard Drive 120 GB (7200rpm) IDE hard Drive with 8 MB DataBurst cache 17” Flat Panel Monitor Intel Processor 4 Video Card 128 MB Sound Card Speakers 48 x CD-Rom & 8 x DVD+R+RW Floppy Disc Drive Windows XP Microsoft Works 7.0 3 year on site next business day service support Faults. After 13 months, I tried to turn it on one morning and nothing happened... Read review

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