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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

Colleen,

If cost is a concern you could skip buying the DVD burner for now and if you
later decide you need one you could always buy an external one. I have a
cheap ($36) USB 2.0 PC Card stuck in my laptop and an external 8x USB 2.0
dual layer DVD-RW drive attached to it which cost about $160 back in
November and is plenty quick for my purposes. When and if you decide you
need one, they may be even cheaper than that. Of course an external drive
does not have the same compact portability as an internal one and how
suitable it is would depend entirely on what you would want to do with it.

- Bill

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> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Laptop Recommendations: DVD Burner?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Colleen
> 
> > 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?
> 
>  I would get a DVD-RW if I got a new machine. Since you seem 
> to be going for the minimum cost, a CD-RW would suffice for 
> backup. I would also upgrade to 512 RAM and XP-Pro.
> 
>  IMO, any Compaq is a dog. YMMV.
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