When considering laptop requirements another key element is optical drive media

Feb. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Optical drives differ considerably in functionality and quality, as such it is crucial to know what are the differences and how they may benefit you.

First we have the CD-ROM. While hardly ever seen on a laptop these days, this is simply a drive that can solely read CD’s. A CD-RW drive offers CD read and write capability. Then you enter the realm of combination CD/DVD drives. A CD-RW/DVD-R drive has CD read/write and DVD read capabilities and a DVD-RW allows for both CD and DVD reading and writing.
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There are further optical drive options but these in general do not come as standard with laptops in this price range. For example the DVD RW-DL is an optical drive with Double Layer writing capabilities. This allows for DVD burning onto double layer DVD’s, providing 8.4GB of storage and is beneficial to those who want to copy double layer DVD’s (games for Playstation, Xbox and Wii platforms are often double layer). Other optical drives that you may see, but again only come on the more expensive laptops are for the Blue Ray and HD-DVD formats.

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The most common optical drive installed on a laptop today is the CD-RW/DVD-R, which provides CD read/write and DVD read capability. So again when considering what laptop to purchase consider if you will you be happy with this basic specification. Or do you want to burn to DVD and backup masses of data. Then it would be beneficial to go for a laptop with DVD-RW. For the more advanced user with graphic design, animation and multi dimension gaming needs a more sophisticated optical drive would be more appropriate. Then again such needs would probably mean looking at a higher end spec laptop anyway. One that has extended storage capacity, supreme processing power and seamless graphics manipulation.

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