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Patok wrote:
BillW50 wrote:
On 4/23/2011 3:29 PM, Patok wrote:

I use several laptops, but no desktop; that's why I have the
external powered burner. Other than that, one of my laptops already
has its internal drive with exactly the same parameters as the one
Jo-Anne is buying - reads/writes everything at up to 8X. Not only
is it slow (and one has to factor in the verification time after
burning - hopefully nobody here burns without verifying the written
data), but it overheats, so I can't really burn more than one
regular DVD at one sitting. Without a cool-off period, the next
ones become coasters.

I don't know what kind of laptop you have? But I have over a dozen.
And most of them have internal burners. And six of them have
removable drive bays. So I can insert an internal burner into any of
them very easy. It sounds like yours doesn't have an internal burner.
Well you can
replace it with one or get an external burner. It sounds like you did
the latter. And in this case, the slimline design probably would not
be a good choice if you burn a lot.

The above passage and the one that follows show that there's some
miscommunication. The laptop I was talking about *has* an internal
burner - the one that overheats with heavy use. That fact, and
because it is slow at 8X, made me buy the external powered burner.
There would be no point in replacing it with another just as slow,
even if it didn't overheat.

The vast majority of internal laptop optical drives are just plain
slimline drives with extra brackets and sometimes adapters. So you can
put in virtually any type you want too.

I haven't ran into any overheating problems. Although if I did, I
would add a fan. If it had one, I would add a bigger one. As I never
had a problem yet when I had to wait and let it cool down (ok back
in the CD only days I did, but not for DVD burners). As that would
be totally unacceptable to me.

True, but how do you add a fan to an internal slim-line laptop
drive?

Oh, I thought you were talking about an external 5¼ type. So what kind
of laptop do you have that gets so hot? All of mine run relatively cool,
except for my gaming laptop. But I wouldn't use that one to burn DVDs
anyway.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3