Jack
  Don't pay any attention to that man behind the curtain, he's not the
Wizard.  Seriously don't worry that is not an engineering spec but a
"sales spec" (if there ever was an oxymoron eh?)  Notice that if
we take it literally the device won't work on a Mac, or in Linux or OS/2
etc.  Poppycock! MY PX716 works in all of mine though the sata interface
presented a few probs... worked-around now till support improves in Linux
but fine in OS/2 and doze.  Similarly the spec is so spacious and so
unqualified it is laughable in it's implications and also in what it leaves
out.  Won't a P3 1.6 GHz work?  It *HAS* to be P4? and won't an AMD Athlon
1400+ run it? even though it really runs at less than 1.4GHz?  How about a
Celeron at 1.7HGHz? or 1.4GHz?

  Drives have power supply requirements not CPU requirements.  Otherwise it
would extend to all drives, even hard drives.  The only reservation
whatsoever might possibly be achieving full rated speed with a weak CPU but
I'm betting it is merely a disclaimer type spec so they can write off older
machines instead of having to open a possible can of worms possibly
reflected by sales staff's disdain for those not keeping up to the latest
and greatest.

  Seriously this is a great drive and I will gladly print out and eat my
words if this has any modicum of truth.  Since you saw the "spec"
I suppose you saw the link comparing the 740 to the 716?  The only
difference is the 716 is faster and has a few extra goodies.  See here: 
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/716vs740Comparison.htm

  Anyway I am positive what you have will run it fine or I will buy it from
you as along as the unit is not defective and there is not a snowball's
chance in Hades a CPU, or lack thereof, can accomplish that.

Jimmy
Jimmy

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From: jack.huffman{at}worldnet.att.net
> I am looking at replacing my internal Plextor CD drive with an internal
> Plextor 740 DVD-CD drive.
> 
> Is the latter still a good choice like the CD drive was?
> 
> The Plextor web site says the minimum cpu is an intel Pentium 4 {at} 1.4 ghz.
>  My box has an AMD Athlon 1.0 ghz cpu.  Does that exclude running the
> Plextor unit--as I suspect?
> 
> TIA for info
> 
> Jack
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