Micro Solutions Backpack Bantam CD-Rewriter
Designed as a portable CD-RW solution, this is the drive you want if you have a laptop or need to burn CDs while on the road. The drive ships with both a parallel port connector and a PC Card adaptor, and you can use whichever is more convenient. Unfortunately, the Backpack Bantam still needs access to AC power, so don't expect to burn CDs during extended travelling.
The backpack bantam is slim and portable, yet it includes a built-in speaker for listening to music without headphones. At low volume, the audio quality is passable, but trust us: You don't want to crank the volume. Since the drive comes with Adaptec's Easy CD Creator, you can burn audio CDs as well as make data CDs. As with Iomega's ZipCD, however, it's an older version of the software, and you'll need to upgrade to version 4.0 if you want to make CDs from MP3 tracks.
The drive turned in respectable 4x performance when creating audio CDs. But we have one minor quibble: Unlike all of the other drives in this roundup, it includes no starter media, so you'll have to pick up a box of CD-R or CD-RW disks before you get started.
Backpack Bantam CD-Rewriter
Company: ACA Pacific
Ph: 03 9674 8188
Price: AU$1,276.
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