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LG GCE 8160B CD burner

Advantages: value for money, works well, good for backups
Disadvantages: Not the fastest on the block

...expensive these days. The LG GCE-8160B is a couple of years old now and used to sell at PC World for £69 but can be picked up cheaply on eBay these days. The box contains the bare drive which sports 16x CD-R writing, 10x CD-RW writing and 40x reading as well as all the usual IDE cables, screws and sound card leads. The supplied software is Roxio CD Creator version 5 which is the latest version although not the full 'Platinum' style. You can still ...
...more esoteric features such as vinyl restoration, and Video-CD creation are missing. You can of course use 3rd party software or upgrade to the full version of CD Creator 5 Platinum. A bonus is a good pair of manuals covering the drive itself and the supplied software. The latter contains a lot of useful information for both beginners and experts alike. The package is rounded off with a CD-RW blank rated at 10x. Installation was excellent. Both ...

ilaskey 05.04.2007 · Read full review
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