Posted by Mike Walsh on 11/15/19 11:34

The shop assistant is wrong. The requirements to write a file to an optical device are minimal. You will need more memory and a faster processor the run e.g. editing software and compress files on the fly.

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? Thanku

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

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