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To: Starlight who wrote (19171)	2/15/2001 6:56:55 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Former SanDisk employee now VP of Worldwide Sales at Simple Technology siliconinvestor.com Aus

To: Starlight who wrote (19171)	2/16/2001 4:21:57 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

Elizabeth, yes -- you can get external CD burners for <$70. The real question is whether you want one. The cheap external drives that I have seen all use the parallel port and run so slow that it can take the better part of an hour to burn a CD. All the while, you had better not touch your keyboard for fear of creating "a coaster" (an unreadable CD). But since most of those bargain CD-writers won't tell you when you've created a coaster, be sure to add time to listen to every CD that you copy. Internal IDE drives have come out recently with 12x and even 16x speeds that have Sanyo's "burn proof" technology that guarantees that every CD will be perfect (Plextor and others). They cost $200+ but they come with gobs of valuable software. My Plextor 12/10/32x CD has never made a bad CD and burns a full hour of music in just 6 minutes. IMHO, most "bargains" are just that. You trade your time and risk failure in exchange for possibly saving some money. Craig