On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:40:04 -0600 (MDT) Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]> dijo:
>> Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> >>> Does this sound like a bad CD drive? >It's been 20 years since I cracked open a CD player. I learned a lot >about cheap manufacturing when I did. The worm gear for the laser >aligning mechanism was made of cheap nylon. As soon as the teeth wore >(after a year of use), it could no longer track, and would skip >endlessly. Whatever happened to the squirm gear? Drives used in music players are even worse, in my experience. Several years ago I bought a Sony 300 CD changer thinking I could load my entire music collection into it and be able to control my music selections with the remote control. It lasted a couple months past the one year warranty before it started skipping. And I didn't even use it very much. I've never had an optical drive in a computer go out, in spite of the severe use they get. Guess I've been lucky. My next acquisition will be a blueray for my desktop. I'll have to check reviews carefully. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
