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Summary: Great Burner
Review: I bought this burner about a month ago, and it has been nothing short of fantastic. I have used this with my two laptops (A Dell and a ThinkPad) and have had no problems. I noticed it was a little larger than I anticipated (seems kind of long and fat) but it fit on my desk, next to my monitor with no problem. I have had absolutely no problems with this unit: Burned several audio and data files with no coasters, and the supplied adaptec software is very easy to use (Although I have heard from a friend that the Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 software is better). Definitely recommend this drive.
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Summary: Good Drive for the Mac
Review: Bought this drive to use on my older PowerMac; once I installed the software and the USB driver from Apple it worked very well. My only gripe is that there is no written manual that comes with the drive and the online manual from Iomega is slow, cumbersome, and not very helpful. Given this it was frustrating figuring out how to use CD-RW discs with this drive, which as another rater mentioned must be formatted. Unfortunately I've only been able to write music at x2 speeds, but I think this is a limitation of the Apple software. I've also noticed media differences, I would stick with TDK and avoid Memorex which the drive has a hard time recognizing. Overall, I think this is a great cross-platform product.
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Summary: Great CD-RW Drive
Review: I received my burner in the mail today and i got a pack of 50 Sony blank disks with it. Once i opened the box i realized that i needed disks that coould burn at 4x. I looked at the disks and it said 1x-16x. Luckily, they were usable. Immediatley after installation i started burning cd's. All of them had store brand quality sound. So, if you do decide to buy this, i STRONGLY suggest that you buy blank cd's that will work with it.
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Summary: Not compatible with Toshiba Satellite
Review: My Toshiba Satellite lap top would not recognize this Iomega CD-RW. After several weeks of trouble shooting with the tech support they finally sent me a new USB cable; but my computer still was unable to recoginze this CD-RW. After all this time spent trouble shooting and waiting for a new cable, finally, someone at tech support admitted that this Iomega unit is not compatible with Toshiba Satellite units. [....]
Buyer be ware,
John
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Summary: Performs fine, good price
Review: I was freaked out when reading all these reviews - it seems that people either love a product or hate it. I bought this burner for use with my HP Pavillion PC, and I have had no problems whatsoever with it. It is really easy to set up, the software is easy to install and intuitive to use, and it is very quiet. It is not as fast as some burners out there, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to burn an 80 minute CD. However, unless you are burning CDs for commercial applications, I doubt you will miss the speed. There is built in CD and jewel-box label design software, but they seem to be extremely cheesy and I would recommend buying a real design program if you want to put together really nice labels...
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Summary: It's the Greatest!
Review: I picked this up today and I love it! Got home and made one 23 track CD in 30 min. Not the fastest but hey, it works. I would recomend this to anyone. I have a laptop and I use it! It's the Greatest!
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Summary: Not so great, but it's portable
Review: I had problems with Buffer Underrun errors. Unfortunately, unlike it's internal counterparts, this CD Burner has no buffer underrun protection... for those of you wandering what that means... if it doesn't work perfect the first copy, your CD-R becomes a coaster. I have a HP laptop with a DVD player in it, and read on Iomega's site, that there are problems sometimes when using a DVD player as the source. If your machine is too fragmented you can also get the buffer underruns. I had to check Iomega's support site for all the latest problems/solutions to get my system set up to burn reliably. For safety, I bump the speed down to 2x when burning now... no more problems, but it was a rough start and it's not too quick... (about 30-40 minutes to copy a data CD)
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Summary: burn baby burn!!!
Review: I like this Cd ReWriter very much! The software is very compatable with my Macintosh and it works very quickly to make copies of all my software. Music takes some time, but music isn't what I burn a lot of cd's for. If you're looking for a good recorder to make back ups or save files, pictures, or artwork, this is a good burner for the money!
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Summary: Iomega CD-RW A Great Buy!
Review: I purchased the Iomega External CD-RW drive about two months ago and like it as much or better than a faster top-of-the line internal drive I'd purchased earlier. The Iomega's speed is more than adequate--it works quickly and flawlessly. The USB port plug-in makes it easy to install (I installed it in five minutes with no problems). It certainly has my recommendation! I'm going to purchase two more as Christmas gifts!
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Summary: My evaluation!!
Review: Well, I bought this thing about a year ago because I had a lot of faith in IomegaZip. When I went from Win3.1 to 95 to 98, the software upgrades on my Zip100 were free for owners of the product. Not so with this: I upgraded to w2k and Iomega sent me to Adaptec sent me to Roxie to find out I had to BUY the software upgrade. SOLUTION: I 'borrowed' a new drive from the store and returned it later. A couple of the audio cd's I made wont play in my car stereo, but that could be the discs theirselves. If you want to use Nero, the adaptec software will conflict with it. I uninstalled adaptec, installed Nero and re-installed adaptec and then the software was compatible. But the software upgrade issue was the drawing line for me. There is just to much technological change to be charging people for upgrades so they can keep using the hardware they already bought! I'll never deal with Iomega or Adeptec or Roxie again.
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