Primary DVD±RW drive

Advantages: Can burn Dual Layer (8.5GB) media (4x speed), 16x speed for DVD+-R, CD-RW 32x24x40x
Disadvantages: Regions can be changed 5 times

...Pioneer DVR-108 16x DVD+/-RW is one of the best or the best DVD+-RW drive on the market. Pioneer's products has good reliability. With this drive you can burn 4.7GB data in about seven minutes. It's also supports writing Dual Layer media - 8.5 GB discs at 4x speed. If you're planing to buy DVD+-RW drive than choose Pioneer DVR-108. Pioneer name means quality. This drive isn't very fast, but burning and reading quality is excellent. It uses RPC-2 region protection. You can change region 5 times and then you will be locked on the last one. This is only one disadvantage of this drive, but now almost all DVD drives have protection from changing regions. I hope i help you to decide buy or not this great drive. I guarantee 99% that you will be satisfied your decision to buy this device.... Read review

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Advantages: High Quality
Disadvantages: Expensive

...What can i say about these DVD discs, well, This media has been designed for use in DVD+RW recording devices, conforming to basic format specification version 1.0. Recording time will vary depending upon recording mode and content. Please consult your hardware manual for further information. Some contents might be subject to limitation on the number of duplications or might be copy prevented. A recording in SP(standard play) mode can be played back with most of the DVD-Video players and DVD-ROM drives, depending on their generation. DVD+RW is another exciting DVD rewritable format. Sporting a capacity of 4.7GB, DVD+RW media is designed to achieve excellent compatibility with current and future DVD drives and video players. The Sony DVD+RW 4.7GB Rewriteable Discs are very reliable but do cost a lot of money, they are of very good... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight but good size, very sleek, reliable, good hardware compatability with other OS's, good battery life
Disadvantages: No parallel/serial port (but its 2006 and you can buy USB adapters for those)

...After owning just about every make of laptop over the years, this is the first that I have really truly liked. A sturdy but lightweight laptop, with a very decent screen and very useable keyboard. The specifications were what I thought very good for the price I paid, and after running performance tests I was delighted to find that the laptop outran my carefully built and tuned P4/2.4Ghz desktop by factors of almost 3:1. The DVD/RW drive has survived almost 6 months of intense use, the internal wifi seems to have excellent range, and the hardware is compatible with linux without any difficulties (which was my main concern as i'm not too good at configuring linux yet :-). One handy feature is the "fan" button near the keyboard. Pressing this puts emphasis on keeping the CPU running as fast as possible without turning the fan up to high... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful