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Posted by Rod Speed on 04/28/06 07:04
Bazza <Bazza@privacy.com> wrote:
> <SNIP ... see thread for details>
>
>>>
>>> Sony don't use liteon drives. They switched to lg.
>>>
>>> At work we bought in a fair few 110 pioneer drives and have had
>>> nothing but problems with them. We tried the 111 drives too and they
>>> do not handle faster medi ato well. The sony drives are very good.
>>> We have 5 tower cases with sony drives and not a single failure.
>>> Many other mates we know use lg or sony over pioneer.
>>>
>>> You got to be nuts not knowing how good these sonys are:)
>>
>> Actually the Sonys are mostly made by BenQ, which is why they're so
>> good.. <g>
> Just a note BENQ sold their optical drive business to LiteOn several
> weeks ago. The BENQ 1650 is likely to be the last true BENQ drive.
> http://www.benq.com/press/news.cfm?id=1331&cat=2&year=2006
Whew, just went for the 4167B, mainly because its a lot better known |-)
Never been keen on orphans if I can avoid them.
> Not to mention that BENQ *lost* NT$4.99 BILLION during the 1st
> 3 months of 2006 ... no idea how much that is in US dollars.
160M US$, not quite so bad |-)
> http://www.benq.com/press/news.cfm?id=1333&cat=0&year=2006
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