RichyCox said:I know is says that it works with windows vista, but any chance this item will work with mac book air?

For read purposes, yes, but you may not be able to burn with it. In which case you'll have to run Patchburn and that might not do the trick either.

in for one ..

good deal

In his recommendation of this drive, Jason Dunn recommends a USB extension for those with USB ports on opposite sides of the machine, so you might want to include one in your order or hit Monoprice.

I've got an 8X burner in a notebook I have right now. It won't burn to 16x discs, not even the 1-16X discs. 8X are increasingly hard to find if not downright impossible.

It's certainly a great price, but is my 8x burner at present the problem, or will I run into the same thing with this drive as well? Thanks for any advice. I'm waiting on a Asus 10" notebook and am interested in a separate drive that I can travel with.

3FXC said:As far as power requirements, do these USB slim burners (without a brick) work without an issue as the slim ones that use a power adapter? I know it is nice not to have the brick but if the USB power is not enough for a certain case, then that could be a problem. (There used to be this problem with some USB powered external HD)
I own an LG slim DVD burner, as it was the best deal I could find at the time. It works fantastic bus powered, but as mine is also a Lightscribe drive, I do have to plug in the included power brick when burning graphics on the Lightscribe side of the disc. My understanding is that you may also get faster burn speeds when using the power brick, but I've not had the opportunity to test that out yet.

If you have an old/broken/unused laptop with an internal dvd drive, you can also buy an external dvd enclosure to re-use that dvd drive by converting it to a portable external dvd drive. Search around (or on eBay) for "slim enclosure".

BrianC said:Be aware that this unit requires 2 USB plugs since it doesn't have an external power supply. This doesn't work well with my Lenovo S10 since it doesn't have 2 USB jacks next to each other.

Mine runs fine off of 1 Lenovo S10 USB port

mudley said:RichyCox said:I know is says that it works with windows vista, but any chance this item will work with mac book air?

Probably not, i think you need the apple super drive
unless there's some workaround that i'm unaware of.

0AfterRebates said:You don't need this if you have another computer with a DVD drive. Just connect to your main computers drives over a network.

You need it if you want to boot your netbook from a dvd, like to install windows 7 (which btw, rocks on a netbook)
unless there's some workaround that i'm unaware of.

just run the iso off daemon or something. Considering the netbook has no optical drive, putting a virtual drive on it was one of the first things i did with mine. if you got win 7 ur prolly dling it from torrent neways.

BTW I want to install win 7 on my mini 10 but i was wondering is the Dell dock compatable? kind of gotten attached to it.

its a good drive, i have one for my netbook, bought it for 64.99 from microcenter, i give it a good rating, good for loading another OS onto your netbook .