Iomega CD-RW 52X24X52X DVD-ROM ( 32886 ) |  | Brand: Iomega
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $80.00
You Save: $19.99 (20%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Apple MacOS 8.6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 9.8 x 6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 32886
Model: 32886
UPC: 742709328862
EAN: 0742709328862
ASIN: B0001AN1PK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Combination CD-RW/DVD drive | | • | Fast USB connection | | • | Easy to install and use | | • | Software included | | • | One year warranty |
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Product Description
The Iomega CD-RW 52x 24x 52x/DVD-ROM 16x USB 2.0 external drive is two great drives in one - you can watch DVD movies, or burn CDs quickly and easily. This sleekly designed yet durable drive features fast CD burning speeds (52x) and DVD (16x) reading speeds so you can burn a 60-minute CD in less than 3 minutes. It's easy to install and operate, and includes all the hardware and industry-leading software you need to capture and share music, photos, presentations, data and more, including Iomega's great CD burning software, Iomega HotBurn Pro (PC only) and CharisMac Discribe (Mac only).
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| Customer Reviews:
NOT What It Says ??? September 8, 2005
Pookie (UK)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bought this for a friend in US:
While it says Iomega on the box, but is, in fact a lite-on, according to Nero.
I have NEVER had a decent lite-on burner yet!!!!!!
(Three stars given, as i couldnt leave blank)
False Advertising February 25, 2005
Deborah A. Woehr (San Jose, CA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this drive from my local CompUSA for two reasons: I needed to backup my files, and I thought it would be cool to watch DVD movies on my Mac. The software for the DVD player was supposed to be included, right?? Wrong. Iomega does not offer software for the DVD player, but they didn't bother to say this on the box.
Here is the software compatibility list that I found in the user manual:
Iomega HotBurn Pro (PC users)
Charismac Discribe (Mac users)
Iomega Automatic Backup (PC only)
Sonic CinePlayer (PC only)
MusicMatch Jukebox (PC/Mac)
Adobe PhotoShop Album SE (PC only)
I'm giving this drive a 3-star rating because my experience with the CD-burner was great. The software installation was a snap, and it took about a minute to burn 350MB on a CD.
Even though I accomplished my original goal, I would not recommend this product to Mac users. In fact, I wish I had checked on Amazon before I did.
DVD support on Macintosh less than sterling November 16, 2004
Bruce Grubb (Las Cruces, NM USA)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
For a product that is supposed to support PCs and Macintosh you would think that hardware limitation for DVD would be spelled out but no such luck. While the CD-RW works reasonablly well it does take a little getting use to. However the DVD part is where this drive has the biggest problems.
The packaging says G3 or better but the fact of the matter is
Apple's DVD Player does not work on external drives on the older G3s and while the box said it supports MacOS X there is no alterernative DVD player provided for the Mac, so you have to find one.
Then there are performance issues. Even with a USB 2.0 PCI card in my G3/430 512 MB B&W Mac DVD audio and video were ridiculously choppy and when I compred performance to the built in USB 1.1 ports I found the drive performing exactly the same way and a little research showed the bottle neck to be in the video card not the port! When I upgraded to a G4 macmini the DVD performance improved dramatically indicating that the G3 requirement was more for the CD-RW fuctions than the DVD.
So if you want a good CD-RW drive this drive is great but if you want it as an external DVD you will definitely need either a powerful video card or perferably a G4 Mac.
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