The No. 1 seller of external CD-rewritable drives will be throwing all of its resources behind the emerging market for recordable DVD drives.

The HP drive will rewrite onto DVD discs at a speed of 2.4x--which Sanderson said was the equivalent of a CD-ROM drive reading at 20x--and can read DVDs at 8x.

Dubbed the HP CD-Writer line, the drives let you create your own CDs containing music, photos, or computer data. HP expects to ship the drives Sept. 1, and they.

ORLANDO, FLA. — Yamaha Corporation of America unveiled a CD-RW rewritable CD recorder with FireWire interface, powered speaker systems for PCs and CD-R blank discs during Fall RetailVision, here, ...

HP also announced two sub-$1,000 Pavilion home PCs on Monday: the Pavilion 4540 and the Pavilion 4550z. The $749 Pavilion 4540 has a 433-MHz Celeron processor, an 8G-byte hard drive, 64M bytes of ...

Most modern laptops don’t bundle a CD drive, but if you need to access your old CD collection, you can always pick one of these external CD drives. ... HP Omen Max 16 Review: ...

Recently I became the mostly happy owner of an HP Pavilion dm1z. I say “mostly happy” because I wasn’t thrilled with its performance. To give the system a boost, I decided to swap the pokey ...

One 3.5-inch internal drive bay is open; the 5,400-rpm Western Digital WD800AB 80GB hard disk fills another, while CyberDrive CW078D CD-RW (officially a 40/10/48X drive, though HP bills it as ...

To rip a CD, you'll need a computer with a CD drive. (Jim Rossman) It’s been a while since I was asked about burning music CDs, but this week a reader asked how best to make music CDs from his ...