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To: jamok99 who wrote (10956)	10/1/2000 5:35:49 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

CDR is a major factor in PC selection these days. When 100Mhz pentiums were sold the need for high speed cpus to burn CDs was very apparent. I upgrade from a 133Mhz PC to dual 400 mhz in a large part to burn CDs for backup. It is relevant to the future needs of users for new cpus that there are fewer and fewer applications that need 1Ghz or 2 Ghz to improve an application in contrast to the recent past. I think that the efficiency of handling mpeg4 streams and supporting 3d graphics are some the few requirements that allow most people to appreciate the benefits of 1.2Ghz Athlons. A recent study by a PC magazine did blind testing of computers running office software applications at different speeds between 600Mhz and 1Ghz. Their resultss were that users could tell any different between machines in this speed range based on the common office applications. The burn proof technology provided by Plextor in the Plexwriter is actually Sanyo technology. In a recent review this was discussed: "Irrespective of the cause, Sanyo's BURN-Proof technology promises to ensure that nothing will interrupt the CD-burning process and cause this kind of failure. In the event of buffer underrun, the PlexWriter's BURN-Proof feature (licensed from Sanyo) remedies the problem in three steps. First, it stops the burn. Second, it waits for the buffer to refill. And third, it locates the last written frame in the spiral track and resumes the recording process." computershopper.zdnet.com