Originally posted by: Jaiman Tuckuh
(Most LiteOn's will too, but they generally make mediocre or variable-quality burns. OTOH, they are excellent readers/rippers, for those crapped out discs you might get in trade. And they're often upgradable as all hell. You can often get 'em cheap and use them just for reading).
The "Slimtype" (LiteOn/Sony) burner in my laptop does a piss-poor job reading the thousand-or-so TY CD-Rs I've got, most of which were written by a Philips. (Most LiteOn's will too, but they generally make mediocre or variable-quality burns. OTOH, they are excellent readers/rippers, for those crapped out discs you might get in trade. And they're often upgradable as all hell. You can often get 'em cheap and use them just for reading).
