WC>> By the time I get around to a CD burner DVD burners may be
WC>> affordable?

RS> The darned things take a 600MHz or better PC plus Win98 or
RS> higher. Unless things change in newer DVD burners, I'll
RS> probably never have one.

CA> --8<--cut

CA> I can't say what the minimum CPU speed would be but I do know
CA> that my daughter was burning CDs on her 450mhz machine and
CA> making few, if any, coasters.

 I'm assuming you mean DVD's?

 The speed info that I got was from looking at the
minimum requirements for drives that I was interested
in.

CA> Funny thing about DVD burners - to make DVD copies you need 5
CA> gig of free hard drive space for the ISO. I hadn't thought
CA> about that until I was reading some DVD-RW advertisements. For
CA> me, this is funny since I use an 850 meg hard drive right now.

 FWIU, it takes a long time and a lot of room to prepare
a movie for the DVD. Something like 4 times as long as
the movie runs. (A 15 minute movie takes 1 hour to burn).
I assume that this process is also what eats up CPU
cycles.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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