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["Matt Pusateri" <mpusateri AT wickedtrails.com>]

On Tue, March 8, 2005 2:13 pm, Colleen McCarthy said:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm going to get the Presario at Office Depot (I do have concerns
> about
> durability, however, and wish I could justify a Latitude...), and just
> have
> one final decision to make: Do I want a DVD burner?  I don't know.  I
> don't
> have one on my desktop, but would I use one?  Do many of you have one
> and
> use it?
>
> In case anyone else is interested in the deal that Office Depot has
> (today
> is the last day), here's the breakdown of what you get for $400 and
> the cost
> of the upgrades that I'm getting:
>
> Base PC: Compaq Presario R3000Z with an AMD Athlon XP-M Processor
> 2400+ for
> $399 (after rebates).
> Memory: 256 MB DOR
> Hard Drive: 40 GB
> CD/DVD:  8X DVD-ROM drive
> Screen: 15"  XGA screen,
> Graphics Card: 32 MB Nvidia GeForce 4 420 Go
>
> Upgrades and Shipping:
> Shipping $45
> Wireless $30
> Upgrade to CD/DVD burner $100, dual side DVD burner $120
> Upgraded Graphics card to 64 MB $25
>
> Thanks!
>
> Colleen

My guess is that you probably don't need a DVD burner, and most DVD
burners that I have seen in laptops are painfully slow.  Couple of
things you would use a DVD burner for.  Creating movies, burning DVD
ISO images of new software, or burning a system back cd that can't fit
on a normal cdrw.  Now, I really do like having a CD/RW so if one of
the combo DVD/ROM/CDRW drives is an option I would look at that.  But
unless you have a known use for having to burn that much data, it
probably isn't as usefull.

Matt Pusateri