Re: Advice for a new low-cost PC



Dave schrieb:

Well, everything looks great for playing world of warcraft. There is only one change I would make, and if you are a careful shopper, it might not even cost you any extra money. I personally would not build a computer without a burner of some kind, preferably a DVD burner. But you can substitute a "combo" drive with CDR/W capability and DVD-Rom capability for about the same cost as an ordinary DVD-Rom drive. I'm thinking of the future more than the present. It would be somewhat unlikely that you'd never want the ability to burn optical disks of some type, ever, in that system. I know my nephew's save game files, for example, are too large to fit on floppy disks. I filled several DVD blanks with those alone, when his hard drive got infested with computer viruses. Without a DVD burner? Man, I would have had to pull his hard drive out and mount it on another system. Not un. -Dave


my last build dont have a dvd burner.
why?

- theres my notebook which burns dvds.
- there is my linux machine which burns cds.
- there is my second pc which burns dvds.
- there is this nifty router which connects all those computers together and i always can put files from to another and can burn them.

the only benefit i had by putting another burner into that machine would be having a burning option on that computer even when its network broke and everything else still works. and in this unlikely situation i'll put a burner in or the HD out. ;)

the positive aspect of that is that i dont need to install any burning software and any PC Games which uses nasty copy protections would not find any burner, any copy-related-software and will be very happy about that ;)
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