IBM DVD-ROM drive

Advantages: Great for the time
Disadvantages: Old now :(

...by Infinity, these were large but the sound actually was quite puny, you needed to turn the volume up high to hear anything. DVD ? What are you on about: This may shock and amaze you but DVD rom drive was extremely rare and CD RW didn’t exist, our IBM had a CD ROM drive which read the disks at an amazing 32x surpassing many inferior products. It also came with a 1.44 Inch Floppy drive capable of reading and writing 1.44 MB floppy disks. Plug That In: The PC came with keyboard and mouse and speakers, I loved the keyboard it was truly amazing with separate volume controls and customisable buttons. The mouse was pretty basic 2 buttons no strings attach.... well it did actually :P. The Infinity speakers where very big which makes them look impressive but they didn’t sound so great. Cant We Plug More In: We sure could, the PC was equipped with 2 new... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Combo drive
Disadvantages: slighly slow CD burn rate compared to others

...I got this drive to eliminate the need for having separate DVD and CDRW drives when I was building a PC for someone. The drive is IDE and lives quite happily on your secondary channel as a master - this is the recommended option to eliminate CD writing failures and DVD playback artifacts. The drive comes complete with CD burning software in the shape of Nero Burning ROM V4, as opposed to the usual suspects of Adaptec Easy CD Creator or CeQuadrat Win On CD. This does not mean that the software is not up to par - far from it! NBR4 can do everything the competition can and more, such as overburning media and bootable CDs. The main reason for this is the DVD read capability. Although the 4x read is somehat behind what most dedicated DVD drives offer nowadays, in reality you only need 1x DVD read to view a movie. Let's face facts - how... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: small and beautiful
Disadvantages: not any

...according to me it is indeed a very very good machine produced by IBM. according to me it is fast as well as it has got a very good and better memory or capacity with a 100 percent of reliablity. in my view the design is good and the black colour conbination as well which makes it good looking and attractive. the installation is very easy and is quick after all so it takes liss time. it is easy to handle and easy to use. i would give it a rating of 4 out of 5 and would like to recommend it to my friends if they are willing to buy it. at last it is indeed a good one.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful