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06-12-2006
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| CD Freaks Member Join Date: Jul 2003
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| Replacement DVD-burner for laptop My wife's Gateway laptop has a Philips SDVD-8820A burner that doesn't make good discs. I did a chat with Gateway support yesterday, described things, and she confirmed that I'm not the only person with these type issues. Without much hesitation, she authorized a 'swap'. They won't/can't guarantee which replacement they'll ship, but these are the ones they have: LiteOn SSW-8015S Toshiba TS-L532U Philips SDVD-8441 Sony AD-5530A HLDS (Hitachi) GWA-4082N I'd like something with firmware I can update, first off. Removing 'riplock' (the Philips certainly seems to have it enabled) is another thing I'd like and of course, reasonably good burn quality. I'll still use my desktop for the majority of burning, but I'd still like something acceptable on the laptop. |
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07-12-2006
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| CDFreaks Resident  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Center of North America
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| Re: Replacement DVD-burner for laptop LG and NEC are the better laptop drives I have seen. I did see a LG GMA-4082n which I am not sure how close it is to the GWA. It was a pretty decent drive. Most laptop drives are OEM and don't get a lot of official firmware support.
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| Re: Replacement DVD-burner for laptop i have an NEC 7540A and that always reads and writes what ever i throw at it! http://www.kikatek.com/product_info....ducts_id=37413 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/Optiarc-AD-7540A/ for firmware,voids warranty but made my drive work even better! |
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