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Old 22-09-2006   #13 (permalink)
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Re: BenQ DVD Writer Are Vanishing

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Originally Posted by crescent1246
I went to CompUSA yesterday and they have stacks of the Norwood 1650's
but they want 80 dollars for them.

I wonder if the firmware is the same as the benq fw with just a different alpha
numerical designation, or is it totally different fw.

You would think if it was a dw1650 and came from Benq it would be the same.
Right now at Compusa the rebadged BENQ 1650 Norwood Micro drive is $59.99 after $20.00 mail in rebate. The firmware has the official BENQ firmware. The drive itself says "BENQ DW1650". I haven't seen anyone else report differently. Installed 3 of those Norwood Micro drives into 2 different computers that I just built.
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