6 Feb
2007
6 Feb
'07
8:47 p.m.
On 6 Feb 2007 at 20:22, Hex Star wrote:
My family has a Dell XPS T500 which shipped with a
DVD-ROM drive and a CD-RW
drive...(came with 98...was around 1998...yep they're that behind in
technology :P)...the DVD-ROM drive was naturally the main drive until about
3 years of us having the Dell (2001) the drive has stopped reading
discs...indeed it does seem that the diode in dvd-rom drives has a much
shorter life span then regular cd-rom drives or even cd-rw drives (we now
use the cd-rw drive as the main drive and for cd burning as it's still
working great)
For everyday use machines, I like the CD-R/RW burner with DVD read
capabiity. Can't burn DVDs, but can read them just fine.
Cheers,
Chuck