While CD-RW drive sales are soaring and DVD-ROM drives continue to struggle for widespread consumer acceptance, drive manufacturers are pinning their hopes on the CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive to ...

Page 2: Up Close and Personal and The Active Panel Page 3: Test Machine and CD-R Benchmarks Page 4: More CD-R Benchmarks Page 5: DVD Benchmarks Page 6: CD-R/RW Burn Times and Conclusion A few years ...

Novice PC buyers face a difficult choice: whether to get a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive or a CD-RW drive that reads and writes CD-ROMs. For me, it’s an easy decision. I’d get a CD-RW, which stands for ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

The popularity of Apple’s new iBook model featuring a combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive has caused the company to rethink its retail marketing strategy — a move Apple confirmed today in a conversation ...

Taiwan-based optical storage maker Lite-On IT this week said it will introduce a 48x combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive in late April, moving up from the current mainstream 32x combo drives. Save my User ID ...

In a move to avoid the fray in “combo” drives that are built into notebook computers, AOpen has introduced external slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo products and started shipments this month. Save my User ID ...

I've been quite happy with my Samsung SM-332 IDE combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. I've had it for two weeks now, and it's quite an improvement over my old 8x SCSI burner and 6x IDE DVD-ROM drives.

Sony Electronics has introduced a new Mac-compatible, battery-operated portable CD-RW drive that works as a standalone CD and MP3 player when it’s not connected to ...

HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and TSST (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology) are soon to cease manufacturing of both CD-ROM and CD-RW drives. Not too big of a surprise since the last time I went ...

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