I wouldn't worry too much about it. 99% of the recording done is onto DVD+/-R or +/-RW.

It has some benefits, such as allegedly functioning like a hard disk, but the discs are more expensive, and the format cannot always be read by older DVD players and drives.

that really depends on how much extra you're being stung for it and whether you will get any use out of it or not.

Its included with the price, 1019.00 for the laptop.

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Intel® Centrino® mobile technology with interrelated Intel® Pentium® M processor 740, Intel® 915GM Express chipset, Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG network connection (802.11b/g) and extended battery life capability


512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB; 533MHz frontside bus, 2MB L2 cache and 1.73GHz processor speed


Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media; also supports DVD-RAM

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its useful for very high-speed burning and most particularly for watching & recording video/tv, including watching one thing, stopping/pausing and recording summat else at the same time (like a dvd-recorder) Are you likely to be doing either of those things?

just over a grand U$, thats about 600 notes in real money, yeh thats fair enough.

Other than watching a movie, no. I just need a burner to back up files. this computer will be for Word Processing mainly, with some music on it for background while writing. Very little if any games played on it, and little internet use, other than updateing windows. Its so I can go places to do my writing, rather than being stuck at home.

Well how much do you really need. if you plan on running XP you can't have more then 2 gig of ram in you computer. it will simply ignore the extra processing power. if your going to spend this much moneys on ram then you ought to make sure your system can handle what you taking and ask yourself what your using it for. i need my ram because without it i couldn't run any of my games. movies however take much less power. you could be just blowing a couple hundred an ram you really don't need.


Edited by - The Shroud on 2/5/2006 9:11:34 AM

Running wordperfect, and MS Media player a the same time, and maybe a couple other writing programs will use a bit of mem. Vid ram is not an issue as this laptop will have shared ram up to 128mb, so having more ram is a good thing. I am looking to have between 1.5 and 2.0 gb

Isn't that overkill unless you're doing a helluva lot of gaming?

Got the laptop. On sale from $1149.99 to $969.99 Not too bad, ehh?
DDR2 ram is expencive. Only have 512mb at the moment. Another stick is $199
Toshiba has totally impressed me. Oh, this posting is from the laptop too.

1.73 ghz
80 gb HD
512 ram
intel shared ram
2mb l1 l2 cach
533 fsb
SRS TruSurround XT sound
Cetrino Porcessor
XP Home + SP2

it's done nothing for your spelling, Vulture Boy!

There is little that will help that.

I just need new glasses, can not see the keyboard with the ones I got very good any more

Getting this thing set up is a hoot.

I was going to say that many DVD camcorders record to DVD-RAM which is seldom compatible with most multi-format capable DVD drives.

The number of software available to convert DVD RAM content to anything else more compatible also is limited.

Also, the DVD RAM disks themselves are more delicate than DVD + or DVD -.

I bought a DVD RAM disk camcorder. I had to download one software tool to extract what was on the camcorder's DVD RAM and convert it into more readily accepted formats like Mpeg3/4. It came with a driver disk so that my PC would recognize the camcorder as an extra optical drive.

DVD RAM is very fast in comparison to DVD +/- burns. So I see why it is on my camcorder.

But I see you bought something else so ... never mind

Got this bad boy up to 1.5gb ram now and man, is it fast.