Every laptop I've seen offered by the majors has the 2X DVD recorder. To fix this, get the CDRW/DVD and put the DVD recorder out on the USB 2.0 port.
And 64-bit all the way.
Bob
Im a student, thinking of buying a new laptop/notebook.
I don't game, i need a machine that will burn dvds quickly as well as run normal operations a student will normally require. I use fireworks-dreamweaver, occasionally but not often. what processer class should i look at. AMD 64, AMD SEMPRON, AMD XPP, P-M, P 4-M, Celeron??? any help is appreciated.

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