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What I can gather most of you on HL are pc boffs!! :P

So is anyone willing to help me here?

I'm wanna buy a CD-RW.Does anyone know any cheap deals going on at the moment in the UK? :P

Oh, will I have to buy any software with the CD-RW aswell?

Please excuse my ignorance, but when I went to a convent school they had no pc's way back in ...... :roll:

Thanks.

Vanessa.
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Can't give you any price guides, but look for something around the 48 speed mark. Make sure you PC has enough horse power too.

From what I gather brands don't matter as much as they used to. CD Writing isn't cutting edge technology any more and the chances of creating coasters instead of lovely CDs has decreased a whole lot.

You should get basic software with the drive, try get Nero Burning ROM.


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i kinda like the hp range, i have several hp 9700's at the moment, and along with the latest nero version and half decent disks (tubes of 50 traxdata 16s at the moment), i can't remember the last coaster i made, maybe months ago, and i go through about 5-10 disks a day...

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I use a rather old HP 9110i, but as far as I remember HP don't make CDRW drives anymore :sad:

Been very happy with it so far, and it's been over 2 years, it's definately the oldest piece of hardware on my main PC.

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yeah, but dvd writers are getting pretty cheap around here at the moment, offering 4.7gb storage and perfect movie copies, no more of this 2/3 disk svcd, erm, not that i'd know of any such thing...

oh yeah, and perfectly copied xbox games :blush:
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Which are the best sites?

Musicmatch.com are they any good?
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s**t i'm drunk :wink:

try http://www.dabs.co.uk

mine is a Sony thingy ma bob, came with all software to convert tapes, create and burn wavs etc and has the added advantage even i can use it. ;D ;D ;D

but


you will have to get someone to srip down your PC case and attach it to your system not too difficult, but too difficult for you ;-)


and yes i have shed loads of coasters but at least i can put my cranberry vodka down without marking my AE posters
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On Dec 11, 2002 11:19pm, paint it black wrote:
s**t i'm drunk :wink:

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and right now i'm so in love with you?¿?¿?¿?¿?

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anyway peeps, this morning just purchased a brand spanking new LG 48x12x48 cd-rw for the princely sum of twenty six and a half of your ingleeesh dollars...

http://www.onlinemg.net/ - my local wholesaler *grins*

Caja semitorre ATX MSP Azul-Violeta 300W
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Disco duro 40GB UDMA100
DVD 16x48x
Grabadora CD-RW 48x16x48x
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Monitor 17" PRIMA 1600x1200 0.27
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Teclado y ratón Inalámbrico DEXXA
Alfrombilla ratón

for just 551.88 ingleeeeesh dollars :wink:;);)

i can remember paying over 2 grand for a 486 with sound AND a cd-rom, and being totally blown away by warcraft 1

those where the days, young boys, jumpers for goalposts... *sigh*
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Vanessa wrote:Which are the best sites?

Musicmatch.com are they any good?
I use the musicmatch.com platinum service, 24 hour music, the songs I want, and other totally groovy features, all for only 8 euro dollars a month.

Knew you'd be pleased...

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