Posted by Bill on 08/09/06 15:16

What about a standalone drive. USB attached. Can be moved to where ever it
is needed.
Prices are not that bad now.
My 2c

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<billanderson@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>
> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
> on my personal computer.
>
> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>
> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Category.asp?Category=10
>
> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
> here's my question:
>
> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
> NEC drive?
>
> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
> occasionally.
>
> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>
> Bill Anderson
>

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