laptops with dual layer dvd-writers

[drewson99]

not really that expensive - and the PowerBook laptops have had them for a while now. Can't remember which was first, but the VAIOs are a good price for what you get.

[tompika]

"Have what inside?"

A dvd writer, but I see that Sony Vaio does....most cost a mint?

Ricoh and Pioneer have single format writers
They were the first ones

[birdygal]

I just got a new sony with + and - r/rw MOdel PCGGRT 100 at circuit city
Nice little laptop 2.8 ghz 512 m sony 2x +and - r/rw
So far I burned riteks -r no problem and some old +rw optodiscs I had hanging around with no problems , Don't have a -rw and +r discs to try them out yet.

Great machine for a laptop hard drive capacity too small as most laptops are but an external usb /firewire enclosure with a large drive for all your extra stuff works great. I have yet to hook up my sony dv camera with pass through on the firewire port and use the USB extra drive yet that will be the true test for me. Still have 28 days to take it back if that don't work well

[nicw]

USB1.1 couldn't do anything with my external, I use firewire

FYI, most new PCs and Laptops have USB2.0 ports, or USB2.0 PCMCIA cards are very cheep now. Works fine for 4x burns and is actually faster than 1394 firewire.

I use both USB2.0 and firewire, and cannot separate them both work fine, both use virtually no CPU time. USB2.0 though seems to be cheaper especially for a USB2.0 only external case.

cheers
nicw