Need Advice about Purchasing DVD & CD burning hardware

Please advise me (instead of me having to do a butt-load of research . I need to buy some hardware that will burn both CD's AND DVD's ! I recently purchased a re-furbished Dell Latitude laptop (that I assumed would be able to do this.Sadly,it will not). What I need to know is,WHAT...am I looking for ? DVD-RW ? CD-RW ??? PLEASE advise (So,if I buy the wrong thing,I can blame you) (Just kidding). Thank you all !!! I'm so confused !!!

DVD writer will do CD and DVD

samuria said:

DVD writer will do CD and DVD

Thank you very much,my friend.This is what I thought.Now...if you were me...how would you search ebay for that ? What search terms would you use ?

ignatzatsonic said:

guitarfiend said:

Please advise me (instead of me having to do a butt-load of research . I need to buy some hardware that will burn both CD's AND DVD's ! I recently purchased a re-furbished Dell Latitude laptop (that I assumed would be able to do this.Sadly,it will not). What I need to know is,WHAT...am I looking for ? DVD-RW ? CD-RW ??? PLEASE advise (So,if I buy the wrong thing,I can blame you) (Just kidding). Thank you all !!! I'm so confused !!!

Stay with a prominent brand--Samsung, LG, Asus, etc. Shouldn't be any reason to get fancy unless you need Blu-Ray or have some unusual situation.

Be aware that certain laptops have restricted space to mount a burner. You'll have to figure that out on your own based on your particular laptop. There are "slim line" burners, burners that have a tray mechanism, and those that don't.

I would generally avoid RW (re-writable) discs unless you have some sort of over-riding need for re-writable. Just stick with standard stuff that isn't re-writable.

I haven't done a lot of research or burning lately, but as of a few years ago Taiyo-Yuden and Verbatim were highly regarded manufacturers of blank disks. But I think Taiyo-Yuden announced last year that they were getting out of the business---the market for burning discs has shrunk considerably.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding.But,it appears that you think I am am asking for infor on CDS'sd/DVD's....I am asking for info on Hardware burners for my Dell Latitude D630.,....I need to be able to burn DVD's AND CD's !! With the hardware I have now,I cannot do that.

samuria said:

DVD writer will do CD and DVD

Again...THANK YOU,my friend !!! YOU ROCK !!!

ignatzatsonic said:

guitarfiend said:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding.But,it appears that you think I am am asking for infor on CDS'sd/DVD's....I am asking for info on Hardware burners for my Dell Latitude D630.,....I need to be able to burn DVD's AND CD's !! With the hardware I have now,I cannot do that.

You are misunderstanding.

The first 2 paragraphs mentioned brand names for burners.

You need to find out what will fit in a Dell Latitude D630.

I suspect that is ONLY a slim line burner OR an external burner.

Which do you want?