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Posted by Roberto Divia on 10/02/43 11:34
andrew000 wrote:
> I want to buy an external dvd burner like "LG DVDRW Ext GSA2164D DL"
> or "SAMSUNG SE-W162 External Dual Layer DVD-RW Retail". My laptop is
> an HP pavilion zv5000, with Intel Celeron CPU (2.8GHz), and some 700Mb
> RAM. A shop assistant told me that a pentium 4 is the minimum
> requirement for a dvd burner to work.
> Would my laptop make it?
I have an external FireWite on a Pentium 2.4 GHz, no problems in
~one year and many CDs/DVDs. The key issue was not to use the machine
for other tasks while burning is in progress. "was" as in several years
ago (when CPUs where measured in MHz and not in GHz), not sure this is
still true.
Ciao,
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