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Pundits are predicting a slow tech year, but that doesn't mean that there won't be gizmos to catch your eye and snag your wallet.
Until recently backing up data to a CD-R or CD-RW and playing DVD movies on your PC required two separate drives. With Hewlett-Packard's 9900ci, a 12x (CD-R) by 10x (CD-RW) by 32x (CD read) by 8x (DVD read) drive, you get all the features of a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM drive in one inexpensive and easy-to-install unit.
Pioneer's DVR-A06 offers a great out-of-the-box DVD burning experience, with a solid software selection and speedy reliable writing to boot. Check out our Australian review.
LaCie have announced their new SCSI and Firewire CD_RW-161040 drives, which boast the fastest writing speed of the industry. The 16x record speed helps churn out discs faster, letting users burn an entire 650MB CD-R media in just four minutes (excluding lead-in and lead-out times.
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