Joining this thread late, so forgive my redundancy.... If you use an external USB CD/RW make sure you get a USB 2.0 burner and a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card to plug it into (if your onboard is not 2.0).
I went to oz last October and carted my crappy Dell Inspiron with me. for the trip I bought an external burner and tested it at home on the on-board USB 1 controller. Yeah right! Burning a full CD took ages. So I bought the above mentioned USB 2.0 PCMCIA card and burns went so much quicker. In the end, after lugging the laptop, external burner, CF reader, etc around oz for almost a month, I would HIGHLY recommend getting a laptop with a built-in burner and a built in or PCMCIA CF reader. Christian ----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:43 AM Subject: Re: laptop question... > Well I used an HP USB CD/RW with a Satellite (Win98SE)no problems. > > -- > > Lon Williamson wrote: > > > My experience trying to do this with a Win98SE laptop was not good. > > I have an external SCSI-based burner. I tried two different brands > > of SCSI PCMCIA cards. Both totally hung my machine. Both vendors > > had no useful suggestion about how to burp the card to life. > > > > However, an off-brand IEEE 1394 (firewire) does work in my machine. > > > > -Lon > > > > Cotty wrote: > > > >> On 3/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: > >> ..................................... How involved would it be for me > >> > >>> to purchase a separate burner and install it myself or, > >>> alternatively, has > >>> anyone ever used an external cd-burner with a laptop, and if so, how > >>> did you > >>> find it? what problems, if any, did you find? what sort of power source > >>> would I need to run an external cd-burner or would it draw power from > >>> the > >>> laptop? > >>> > >>> TIA, > >>> tan.
