Adding an internal CD drive to the V5 would significantly increase the size, but I think the trade-off would be worthwhile.
But those hardware bases are on the decline: Witness the MacBook Air, which contains no CD drive, and the increasing availability of Bluetooth MP3 players and satellite radio in cars.
Both the AC750 and AC1800 are the first Belkin routers to feature Simple Start, a browser- based setup interface that streamlines the installation process and eliminates the needs for a computer or CD drive.
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Mark Russinovich of SysInternals did a detailed analysis of a "rootkit" (their word, not ours) he found on his PC, and discovered that, not only was it surreptitiously installed when he played a protected CD, but it also hogged system resources and integrated itself into Windows so deeply that uninstalling it disabled his CD drive.
Next week at Comdex, Verbatim will roll out the 4420, which the company claims is the first CD-RW drive that offers 4X write on both CD-R and CD-RW media. (Current drives are limited to 2X write speeds for CD-RW.) The drive reads CD-ROMs, CD-R, and CD-RW media at 20X.
It also includes an audio cable you can connect to your sound card so you can listen to music on the CD-R drive while using your CD-ROM for other tasks.
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The smaller models of this product family come only with a basic CD-ROM drive, but the CD-RW in the larger models really comes in handy when making your own videos.
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If you're looking for a CD-RW drive to share with others, check out the external version of this drive, HP's CD-Writer Plus 7200e.
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Once you e-file the return, take it off your hard drive and store it on a CD or flash drive in a safe place, like a lock box or safe.
We had the worst experiences with Ricoh's Media Master MP-6200S, a CD-RW drive, and MicroNet's Master CD Plus 4X12PC, a CD-R model.
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It's a snap to install and use, is the speediest CD-RW drive we tested, and comes with a raft of software besides the usual CD creation utilities.
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The Vaio Digital Studio 547 computer includes a 500MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 8x DVD-ROM drive, a 4x Rewritable CD (CD-RW) drive, and a 20 GB hard drive.
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The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.
Here's how to create a boot disk that does let you access the CD-ROM drive.
The letters cd anywhere in the command are a good sign, as is the name of your CD-ROM drive's manufacturer.
Our model also came with a 52X CD-ROM drive, a 19-inch monitor, and the same outstanding Diamond graphics card as the Dell machine.
But Stimac was more excited by what had been left out of the server: There were no connections for a keyboard, mouse or CD-ROM drive.
Just place your CD in the drive, and the program will quickly see the artist, title, and track titles, assuming you're connected to the Internet.
You can create a boot disk in Windows 95 using the same procedure, but the disk won't give you access to your CD-ROM drive, which is necessary if you have to reinstall Windows.
After charging up the handheld overnight, just plug the base station into your PC's USB port, plop the CD in the drive and you'll be up and messaging in a matter of minutes.
Teac's 4X12 is our favorite CD-R drive.
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Stick a CD-ROM in your drive, put the floppy in drive A:, and reboot.
The base unit includes a CD player and 40GB hard drive, along with embedded Gracenote software, so that CDs can be ripped PC-free with song data included.
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SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ) has a device with which you can record your CD collection on a hard drive and select hundreds of different ways to play music on your home audio system.
There are four different methods of installing the game, ranging from a complete CD copy that takes the full 1 GB of hard drive space to a bare minimum install that uses CD swapping when the movies are needed.
It comes complete with 15- or 14.1-inch displaces, Mobile P4 processors, up to 40 MB of storage and a choice of CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD or a drive that can handle all of the above.
The drive will include packet writing software for CD-RW and Cequadrat JustBurn for creating data and audio CDs.
That's not such a bad deal, considering it comes with a Celeron M 420 CPU, 15-inch screen, DVD and CD burner, 512MB RAM and a 60GB hard drive.
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