Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-08-27 3:38 p.m., Chris wrote:
micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:11:13 -0000 (UTC),
Chris wrote:

On 27 Aug 2020 at 06:20:19 BST, "micky" wrote:

I was busy for a while so I'm back to shopping.

Microcenter only has branches in 20 cities or so, but their webpage is
very good in terms of the detail it gives.

For example, they usually? tell you how much RAM it comes with, how many
slots for RAM there are, how many are used, and what's the maximum
amount of RAM you can put in.

And it lets you filter on whether it has an optical drive or not.

1) Optical drives it splits into 3 kinds, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, and DVD+/-RW.
Isn't any of these good enough for me? I don't copy movies. And I
just bought some blank, DVD+R's but I think I can still exchange them.

Writeable DVD standards are/were a mess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_recordable

Nowadays I think all drives can read/write to any media.

That's one of the big reasons I asked. I though so too, but of the 11
PCs that are left after I applied a few filters, 8 of them say they have
DVD-ROM

Here's one of them. It says the same thing in the Overview and in the
Specs. This one is $1300 !!!!! The others are cheaper but I can get
you folks some urls for them ief you want.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/...sktop-computer

Is it really read only?

Looks like it. It's a slimline model.

You know I wouldn't base your decision on a $20 part. Get the machine you
want and then add the DVD drive after if you want it. A USB one works just
as well.

That machine is expensive because of the Quadro card.


Each to his own but I would deem that a pretty poor machine for the
price, especially an SFF.

Can't disagree. A Quadro card is of no use to most people.