wantcd/dvd burner.  Not much of a gamer so wouldn'nt need lots of speed.  What speed should I look for? I'm upgrading from one of those tv web browsers....checking to see what people suggest.  does dual channeling mean I can be doing more than one thing at a time?  See or recommend  good places to purchase from. Prices.
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DO NOT buy the 400 dollar bargain machines!!!!!!!!!\n\nI do in-home technical support and too often the clients that purchase these machines complain that they run just like the old one in about 6 months.  The bargain PC's are great if you know how to upgrade the machine yourself and plan on doing so later.  If you dont know how to work on a PC then do yourself the favor of shelling out another 300 dollars to get the next model up.\n\nDual Channel is a Memory technology.  If you dont plan on gaming or doing any high powered video editing, you dont really need it.\n\nlook for the following:\n\nprocessor: 2.5GHz Pentium 4 and up, OR 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon and up.  You will not notice a difference between AMD and Intel processors.  They will function exactly the same. Typically, AMD processor machines are 20-50 dollars cheaper (or the same price with more bells and whistles) than a comparable Pentium machine.\n\nRAM (Memory): AT LEAST 512MB... try for higher if possible.\n\nHard Drive (storage space):  80GB and up.\n\nVideo Card: any video card made by intel is total junk!  If the machine advertises an intergrated intel video processor take it with a grain of salt.  integrated video processors use the computer's RAM which saps performance from your machine.  Try to find a PC with an Nvidia or ATI video card of some kind.  Most people will tell you that if you dont game this isnt necessary... Im telling you that youll sacrifice a bit of speed.  Remember, you can always install an Nvidia or ATI card later on fairly cheap and easy.\n\nCD/DVD burner:  standard these days.  most computers will come with them.  Just make sure that if you want to COPY CD's and DVD's that you have CD/DVD BURNER and a DVD READER drive.
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It is dual layer dvd, meaning you can burn 2 layers on certain types of dics and instead of fitting 4.7 gb's you can fit 9.4gb.  Pretty nice to have!
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Yes, this denotes the speed that the disk will read/write at.  The number (n)x is how many times faster than normal playback speed.  The higher the number, the faster disks will burn for you.  When possible, go with the higher number.  \n\nI would recommend getting a DVD burner because it will allow you to burn both CDs and DVDs.  Also, when purchasing a DVD burner, look for one that supports DVD+/-r (two different DVD media formats) and Dual Layer (another DVD format that allows you to fit double the amount of data on 1 disk)
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your computer configuration is simply great, you might face problem with you bandwidth, i would recommend any thing above 512kb/s would be good.
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Hmm... I myself have been having a dilemma in choosing a company who can make a power house for gamers like myself who enjoy playing WC3, BF 2, and the likes. One company I have been meticulously considering is AlienWare. I have been told they make some of the worlds most powerful computer, although those people may be wrong. Either way I'm still looking into AlienWare. Their computer with just about everything (i.e. additional drives with hardware at their optimum) costs 7K+; very expensive. Just check them out and see if they offer what you need.
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yes DLINK modems are the best  choice. it may be looking a bit expensive but in the long run it will be very useful and reliable. \ncheck out the prices at your local computer stores . i am sure you will be able to grab a good deal
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Different in speed. do the 2x1Gig for dual channel purposes..
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You need to be more explicit! The rest of us dummies aint got a clue what you are looking for! HD? HI DEF? I think your gonna need a hi def vid card.....check ati out. They have them for a couple hundred
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go for the 29.95 plan on VZ DSL, if you want fast internet like cable... it doesn't slow down, it is da bomb... Plus they are coming out with fiber optics which is cheaper than cable and way faster than anything
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Tech Man is right   www.newegg.com  has got  good ones cheap  NEC is really good i have 2500 burns on mine still works great.  Some DVD Burners come with Nero.  Some are OEM wich is just the DVD Drive.  You can get nero from the nero.com website for a trial, then search online for a serial number and get the progam for free. But its not recommended.   Good Luck man but Nero is the Best no questions asked!
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you can try digital digest.com and check their forums.  They can answer almost any questions regarding dvd's..
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Hopefully, mine is waiting for me when I get home, I ordered it last wed. Mine has the 60GB hard drive so i hope it is speedy. We will see after I load it up with software.\n\nUPDATE  I have had this machine for a few days now and so far so good. It is fast, but not as fast as I hoped. I really like the fact that I can play CD's and DVD's with out having to turn it on and load windows and such. I hope you got the media center edition because it rocks. It has the newest version of IE which is a lot like mozilla. For only having two speakers, the sound quality is awesome. \n\nRight now, dell is offering 60 GB for no additional charge and they change this weekly I guess because right after I ordered mine, they were offering 100 GB for free, now its back to 60.\n\nIf you are looking to get the bluetooth, I would wait. \nYou can get the internal OEM card on ebay for $30 including shipping and it is easy peasy to install. Its a lot better than paying dell $50 and possibly delaying your shipping. \n\nThe ebay link is below as well as a link to how to install it.
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You are looking for a dvd drive for your computer.  Check out:\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/\n\nhttp://www.compusa.com/\n\nhttp://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/category.do?catOid=-12973&N=20012961+20012973&c=1\n\nhttp://www.bestbuy.com\n\nYou can get either a dvd drive that only reads dvd's and cd's (ie. dvd-rom) or a dvd drive that can write dvd's and cd's (dvd writer).  I would go for the writer so you can burn stuff to dvd (dvd's can hold alot more than cd's).
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go with dell or HP prices are a little cheaper at HP get more stuff on the PC. But by all means you are definitely a Media person so Aim for larger Hard drives and Pentium M. it is made for media experience\nand when buy comp. make sure you customize it take out everything you don't need (prices will change dramatically) and only put in what your going to use. (ie. DVD burner x read and write speed you need to get the job done) if you can try to get your hands on a program called Alcohol 120% you will be amaze at it functions.
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There are many good answers already given above, and a few bad ones. \n\nNot one person has mentioned important factors such as how much RAM you have, how fast your CPU is, or even more importantly, WHAT you are burning in the first place.!!\n\nI you are burning a wide variety of files scattered all over \nyour computer, say from another CD, a USB memory device, \nmany different folders from dfferent harddrives, all at once,\nthen there is a hiccup every time the computer has to load in the data from a different location... Burn slow !\n\nIf you are gathering MP3 songs which are scattered all over your harddrive in many sub-nested folders, burn slower.\n\nIf you a copying another CD of your favourite songs or MP3's, you have to consider - how fast is the CD you are reading from, how fast is the data tranfere From one CD to the other, and not just in terms of the " rated" speed, but is one a Master, and the other Slave on the SAME CABLE? If so, the speed is cut in half, since there is only one cable, the cable can only read OR write at any moment, and the data\ncannot read, and be sent to the other CD immediately, which it " COULD " do if the 2 CD's were on DIFFERENT cables...\n\nBe aware that the "rated" speed of any CD is the fastest speed that the CD can burn --- *** IN ONLY ONE SPOT ON THE\nCD *** --- That means that in the tiny centre area of the CD, where the radius of the circle is the smallest, the CD can burn the dots at the fastest speed. As you go out farther on the CD, the actual speed of the track increases greatly, and on the outmost last 1.4 inch, I do not know of a single CD burner that can burn at the " ADVERTISED " speed. ( So in "fact " no CD burner at all burns at the\nhighest speed listed  ). A good CD burner will burn at 80 times. If you take a laser speed reader and look at any CD, you will see the speed decrease as the burner head moves away from the center...\n \n SO, if you have a 4 Giga Hertz computer, with 2 GigaBytes of ram, and an 80 X Speed Burner, and use Serial ATA 10,000\nRPM harddrives, and have each CD machine on a separate ATA 80 pin cable as a MASTER, then you can burn quite fast, with\nfew errors appearing immediately...\n\n I agree with the answer that a slower burn is a more reliable, better burn, with less problems. If you have\na collection of files from differnt harddrives and CD's,\n-- put them in a SINGLE FOLDER, and burn the contents of the \nnew folder, since everything there will be in the same\norder, in the same location, with no hiccups since  the computer does not have to change devices to read the data. \n\n  If you can, try to arrange your cables to the CD's so that\nthe Burner is NOT on the same cable as the harddrive or the\nother CD you might be gathering data from.\n\n Two people with exactly the same harddrive, CD reader, and CD burner, can have totally different success in burning CD's at any given speed. If the first person has the harddrive on a ATA cable, with the CDs as Masters on\n2 differnt cables, while the second person has the\nharddrive and the CD burner on the same cable, as Master and Slave,\nthe second person will not be able to burn as fast without having problems....\n\nI generally burn at 1/2 the speed of the rated machine listing. If the burner is rated at 48, I aim for 24, and if\nI know WHERE THE DATA IS COMMING FROM, ie., from a slower device, the network, or scattered folders, I burn even slower. It does make a differnce. If I am forced to gather\nthe data I am burning from the SAME CABLE.... ( a master or slave on the same cable as the burner ) I burn even slower\nagain... After a while you get a good " feel " for where you can put the speed settings, on each machine...\n I have hundreds of BAD CD burns. Live and learn. There are hundreds of exceptions to each rule, and different software\nprograms for burning, and different manufacters of CD's, readers, burners,
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A has the best Video card, but C is not bad either and would probably be just a little faster at most operations. From personal experience, stay away from B (e-machines have let me down in the past. Depending on where you are located you might consider checking out a few other places:\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com\nhttp://www.dell.com\n\nThose are a couple that are pretty low prices. But if you only want the three you are looking at here, A is the best bet followed closely by C.
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You can do it, but it's not worth it. Time consuming and quality reducing.\nQuit being cheap and buy some more DVD-R's.