External USB DVD Burner for Netbook

Leopard

Donnie wrote: »

Where's the review? I won't waste my time reading your claptrap.

My recommendation is entirely suitable. If you have amore suitable suugestion, by all means, post it. I'm sure that the OP would be interested.

As to owning particular pieces of equipment...I don't need to do so. I have free access to test whatever equipment or software that I desire.

I scannned your post for the review that I requested. As it didn't appear to be there, I quickly realised that your post wasn't worth reading.

The OP has the best possible solution and you are a wastrel.

Dimmie,

Thanks for (so predictably) demonstrating my point.
I do so enjoy watching you destroy your credibility on here, time after time. :beer:
What's important is for people to see not merely that you're a rude fool who is too vain to admit it and apologise when he's proved wrong but that what you write when giving "advice" can't be trusted.


But back to business.

Donnie wrote: »

Where's the review? I won't waste my time reading your claptrap.

< boring bits deleted >

I scannned your post for the review that I requested. As it didn't appear to be there, I quickly realised that your post wasn't worth reading.

< more boring bits deleted >.

So, not content with being proved wrong by LG's own manual for this device, you still want to be proved wrong by a review of it as well, do you?

Seems a bit greedy to me. But no problem. Indeed, you very kindly provided this yourself. :T

See here.

Donnie wrote: »

Here are some pics of the thing in action.

You were perhaps too "bored" to look at it yourself.

Let's skip over the fact that what your link shows is the device not in action. We can put that error that down to your customary carelessness.

What we're talking about here is how many USB ports on a netbook it needs.

Donnie wrote: »

If either Leopard or aliEnRIK can find even a single review of the drive that backs up their claims, I will accept it.

The drive needs one USB port...

If you look at - or even just "scan", as you apparently prefer to do, inadequately - the third and the sixth pictures in your link you will observe that your beloved device has two ports and is supplied with two leads, both of which terminate in a conventional USB plug.

The second lead is for providing power to the device, via a second USB port on the computer.

And the quote I gave you from the manual explains why it's provided.

I do appreciate that intelligence is not something with which you are overburdened but ask yourself why LG went to the not inconsiderable expense of building it in and providing the second USB lead for it if it wasn't needed. Even you should be able to work that out.

They aren't as stupid as you are: it cost them money and they didn't do it because they were bored.

Donnie wrote: »

If either Leopard or aliEnRIK can find even a single review of the drive that backs up their claims, I will accept it.

The drive needs one USB port ...

You've been proved wrong, both by its manual and by a review. A review that you yourself provided.

So, accept it and apologise - to aliEnRIK, to me and to everyone you've misled. Now. We're all waiting - to see you disprove that you're a vain, immature, insecure purveyor of inaccurate information who hasn't even got enough courage, decency and self-respect to admit it and apologise when he's proved wrong.

Donnie

I see you still haven't come up with a better suggestion than mine.

Which is probably why the OP hasn't bothered to thank you for your useless posts.

In the interest of anyone actually interested in following my suggestion and not to be mislead by your blurb...... I will reply.

This might be a relevation to you, but most people purchase a netbook for it's portability.

I know that may have come as a shock to you, but steady yourself.

So having a portable optical drive that can be powered via the USB port is a positive boon.
The fact that it is supplied with a second USB lead for extra power in case the single lead does not supply enough power is also a positive thing.

Simple, no mains power available, use the USB ports. Mains power available, use an adaptor.


Having a large, ungainly drive that can only work with mains power rather negates the aspect of portability.

Any person with even a modicum of intelligence can see it.

More shocks coming.... Once static, the OP can purchase a separate mains adaptor if he doesn't wish to use his USB ports for whatever reason

You see, my suggestion covers all bases.

Whereas your boring babble contributes nothing other than your satisfaction at your attempt to hijack the thread.

So tell us,(others reading this thread for their information) have you actually got a better suggestion than mine or not?

I'm willing to bet not.


I think that everyone, even aliEnRIK can see the folly of carrying on with this argument.

My suggestion is the best for the needs of the OP, full stop.

Now I've made my points clear, it 's easy for all to see that yours is a pathetic attempt to draw me into your baseless argument.

Have you even left school?

free4440273

^I think that's a reasonable and fair riposte actually. C'mon guys, we're here to help each other...:)

Leopard

free4440273 wrote: »

^I think that's a reasonable and fair riposte actually. C'mon guys, we're here to help each other...:)

No.

And this is important. It's really very simple and, for most netbook owners, Donnie's proposal is probably not the best solution.


Part of the problem is that Donnie hasn't got a netbook; so, he doesn't have any experience of using one and (as usual) hasn't thought through the question before answering it.


As even Donnie has grasped, netbooks are all about portability (and small footprint).

The point is - and what hasn't occurred to Donnie is - a net book is so portable that you mostly use it in situations where carrying and connecting an external DVD drive to it would be a major inconvenience.

What, mostly, in practice, you use an external DVD drive for, with a netbook, is transferring data on to, and off, the netbook (or a USB2 memory stick for use with the netbook). And you usually do that at home, or in an office, before you set off with your portable little netbook. Most people don't want to sit on a train with a dangling external DVD drive attached to their netbook.

Which is probably why the OP didn't ask for advice on a portable external DVD drive; he asked simply for advice on an external DVD drive.

And which is probably why aliEnRIK's suggestion is a better (and cheaper) solution for most netbook owners. It would be, for me.

It's also probably why Apple has found demand has not been high for the dedicated external DVD drive it sells for the MacBook Air. (Which, beware netbook owners, only works with a MacBook Air).


Donnie claimed initially that the portable external DVD drive he was proposing uses only one USB port on the computer.

When I pointed out that it might need two, he (predictably) threw his toys out of the cot and started ranting that it only needed one - adding that if I could prove him wrong, by quoting a review that agreed with me, he would accept it.

Better than quoting a review, I pointed out that the device's own manual declared that (depending upon the type of computer to which it was attached) it might indeed need two. (Which is why its manufacturer equipped it with a second port and provides a second USB lead with it.)

Rather than accept that fact, Donnie complained that the device's own manual was insufficient evidence for him. Child-like (as he is) he demanded to see a review that confirmed it.

Fortunately, Donnie himself had already posted a review of it (which clearly he had not actually read) that illustrated the two ports on the device and pictured the second USB lead needed, in some cases, to provide sufficient power to the device.

Boxed into a corner, Donnie is too vain ever to admit when he is wrong. Let alone apologise to those whom he has wrongly called liars.

He changed tack, filed a post that itself completely contradicted what he had previously stated, accepted nothing and apologised to nobody. That's the way Donnie is.


So, now we get back to the practicalities of it. A device that needs two USB ports on the host computer can be a serious problem if the computer does not have two spare USB ports.

It can even be a problem if they are not located close together. For example, I am writing this on a top of the range (last year) 15.4" Apple MacBook Pro. I has but two USB2 ports (in addition, it has a Firewire 800 port and a Firewire 400 port). These two USB2 ports are located on opposite sides of the computer - presumably to accommodate the use of a USB mouse conveniently, by either right-handers or left-handers (a point that Apple has seemingly overlooked with its latest laptop range - but that's another matter).

This being so, even positioning a device that uses two USB leads causes problems. You need access to the front of the device in order to use it, but one USB lead has to go to one side of the laptop and the other USB lead has to go to the other side of it. You can't even use a device supplied with a USB Y-lead without connecting a USB extension lead to one arm of the Y.

You'd encounter even more serious problems if what you wanted to do was transfer the contents of a DVD on to a USB memory stick (so that you could watch a film on the move without having to attach an external DVD drive to the netbook).

So, then, you have a netbook - and you have a USB mouse, you have a USB memory stick and perhaps you have a USB2 stick for television as well. Now how convenient is it to have a DVD drive that needs two USB ports (which Donnie assumes will always be available).


You see? The answer is not always as obvious and straightforward as you might believe, without thinking it through.

This thread has accomplished two things which will hopefully prevent those who read it from losing money by buying the wrong device.

The first was that it could be unwise to buy an external DVD drive that might need two USB ports on a netbook - particularly when burning a DVD.

The second was that the advice Donnie dispenses on here is seldom thought through and can be hazardous (and expensive) to follow.

The third thing, of course, is that Donnie is an abusive liar - but that's been proved many times before, here, and is neither Techie nor money saving.


For most netbook users, aliEnRIK's recommendation is the better one. :money:

Donnie

Leopard

Is there any reason why you neglected to mention the mains adaptor in your little rant?

I think we know the answer to that.... you are desperately trying not to lose what little credibility you have left on this board.

Even aliEnRIK has the good sense not to come back here and argue the point.

You however have not learned the folly of your ways.

Since your whole argument involving the the usage of two USB ports can be solved by using a simple mains adaptor, one has to wonder quite why you keep coming back to this thread. :rolleyes:

Fortunately, it's quite transparent.

What if the OP wanted to travel to another location/country? Quite inconvenient to carry a full size optical drive in ones laptop bag, eh?

Should he just purchase another when he gets to his destination?

Though I don't own a Netbook, I do own laptops without a CD/DVD writer installed and find the portable drive invaluable.

My mum so loves to see the DVD Videos of my travels.

You are truly an idiot.

Leopard

Donnie wrote: »

Leopard

Is there any reason why you neglected to mention the mains adaptor in your little rant?

I think we know the answer to that.... you are desperately trying not to lose what little credibility you have left on this board.

Even aliEnRIK has the good sense not to come back here and argue the point.

You however have not learned the folly of your ways.

Since your whole argument involving the the usage of two USB ports can be solved by using a simple mains adaptor, one has to wonder quite why you keep coming back to this thread. :rolleyes:

Fortunately, it's quite transparent.

What if the OP wanted to travel to another location/country? Quite inconvenient to carry a full size optical drive in ones laptop bag, eh?

Should he just purchase another when he gets to his destination?

Though I don't own a Netbook, I do own laptops without a CD/DVD writer installed and find the portable drive invaluable.

My mum so loves to see the DVD Videos of my travels.

You are truly an idiot.

Not everyone "retires" in their twenties (as you keep telling us you did) to pursue "more interesting things" (as you put it) like policing the MSE site for spam in the middle of the night in Thailand, downloading the membership list of the BNP and composing long abusive diatribes of rubbish to post on MSE.

Those poor souls who find more worthwhile things to do with their lives (many of whom will find their Gordon Brown mini-£s won't buy them a holiday abroad for a while) will be more interested in the fact that the drive suggested by ailEnRIK is cheaper (particularly when you add the cost of a mains adaptor to yours).

And especially if they prefer to use a USB memory stick instead of carting around a DVD writer of any sort at all.

I do hope you will soon be able to afford a laptop with a DVD burner inside it - being so rich. (Or did you leave your prodigious wealth in Sterling, U.K property and British shares...?)

Keep digging your hole.

aliEnRIK

Crikey

I was only trying to help the OP

(Only just realised theyve asked for a DUAL layer too, which REALLY mustnt have any power fluctuations)

Donnie

Leopard wrote: »

Not everyone "retires" .....

I have three laptops. One new and two old. I use the two old ones for travel, as I'm less concerned about damaging them. Not exactly the world's greatest thinker are you?

Should I send my mother a new USB drive instead of a DVD? You really are an idiot.

Leopard

Donnie wrote: »

I have three laptops. One new and two old. I use the two old ones for travel, as I'm less concerned about damaging them. Not exactly the world's greatest thinker are you?

Should I send my mother a new USB drive instead of a DVD? You really are an idiot.

No. You should use an old one that's got its own DVD drive. (Like I do.)

After all, you can afford one: you're so rich...

Keep digging.

(Going down to dinner, now, but don't let that deter you. Venison tonight. Red meat, red wine - so I'd be careful if I were you. )

Donnie

I use my girlfriend's old stuff. I get her a new laptop and use her old one. New mobile; she gets it, I take the old one.

I'm not bothered about 'stuff'.

Is that what your mum cooked for you?

I've prepared Yellowfin Sole baked with a crust made with freshly milled peppers, extra virgin olive oil and sea salt...with chips, for myself and my girlfriend. Too lazy to go out.