Wrong drive and wrong link, working offline is frustrating. Go here: http://www2.warehouse.com/product.asp?pf_id=DR15413&prod=extended&home=pc&cat=pc&blind=no&view=
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 12:12 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, Peter Kaulback spoke this: >In the hour of 11:14 PM 8/8/2002 -0400, Marlene Coldwell spoke this: > >>Greetings PCworkers, >> >>I have an NEC Versa 2780MT Notebook. It has a 233MHZ CPU and 96MB Ram. It >>runs Win98 flawlessly and I don't have any problems with it except that it >>has a regular cd rom, and I need a DVD rom in it. I am not looking to watch >>movies, just be able to read data DVD's. >> >>I contacted NEC and they said that a DVD rom was not made for this unit >>because it was not fast enough, and would need a different video set up. I >>am hoping one of you hardware Guru's can help me out here. NEC told me that >>the connectors are different on most brands, pretty much making the >>components machine specific. I believe this computer with it's present CPU >>would be able to read data DVD's...(I have a 100MHZ at work that will do >>that). Anyway can I get suggestions on where to start a search..and would an >>external unit be an option? I'd RATHER have an internal unit, but I just am >>really unsure of just what I need to look for. >> >>Thank for your input, >> >>Marlene > >Marlene, what a coincidence! An associate of mine has a Versa laptop but >with a 166 mhz cpu and they needed dvd capabilities this past spring so >they bought a Targus external dvd drive which was perfect because a lot of >dvd drives for laptops require at a minimum a Pentium 2 processor but this >item supports 486 processors. >The site on this product is here: >http://www.targus.com/product_Details.asp?SKU=PA950U#, mind the '#' symbol >as it sometimes gets chopped. >Good luck, > >Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
