Well the spec for the processor relates to the ASSUMPTION that you are 
buying this to watch movies on your computer. That assumption is based 
on how Windoze performs when it plays DVD movies. Any less than a P4 
$1.4 Ghz, and the movie has lots of flicker, even static when it plays.

This seems stoopid to me. When I want to watch a movie, I want to watch 
it on a big screen in the living room, not my comparitively small PC 
screen,. Well ok some folks within the Windoze world DO buy 42 inch and 
larger TVs and hook them to their computer to play games.

A DVD+/-RW is a DATA device, not a video device, at least for me. I'll 
use is as a backup device, 4.7/9GB of backup on a single disc is GREAT. 
Prices of write once media are now down to about 0.50 each in quantity 
for single layer media

So the fact that you are running on a AMD processor, and/or efective 
processor speed is less than 1.4GHz is a trivial, even useless spec as 
we are not on Windoze, and we GENERALLY are not playing DVD movies on them.

I have DVD-ROM on this Celeron 400Mhz system. The box clearly said don't 
use this on less than a P4 1.4Mhz system. It works just fine here, I can 
read DVDs, and write CDs without a sweat.



rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:
> 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.
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>   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
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>   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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>> I am looking at replacing my internal Plextor CD drive with an internal
>> Plextor 740 DVD-CD drive.
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>> Is the latter still a good choice like the CD drive was?
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>> 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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