[olug] Physical limits of CD Rom

[Ben Dinger]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:51:56PM -0500, Cale Lewis wrote:
> It's a good drive. I have been using laptop drives I got off eBay inseveral 
> mod projects and the drives out of the IBM laptops have been consistantly 
> good quality drives, although I can't say much for the care and treatment 
> some of them have recieved in the past.
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Glad to hear someone else has had good luck with them :).  IBM portable hardware in genera, in my experience, is downright bulletproof.  

OTOH, avoid Dell like the plague.  I've had two replacement DVD+RW's for my Inspiron 8600 (work laptop that replaced the ThinkPad) and I've only used it a handful of times.  Even though it's slower, has a non-widescreen panel, and not all the nice toys that the 8600 - I long to have my A30p back :). 

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