CD-Rom, DVD-Rom or Both?

[dfoisy]

I plan to bye a new machine any time soon...should i put a cd-rom, a dvd-rom or both?

Thanks to everyone

Dan

 

[Toejam31]

Are you interested in watching DVD's on your computer screen? If so, buy the DVD-ROM. It will also function as a CD-ROM. If not, a regular CD-ROM will be sufficient.

With this in mind, instead of having a CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM ... how about a <i>CD-RW</i> and a DVD-ROM? Then you would have two optical devices with different kinds of functionality. The CD-RW for backing up your computer programs, personal files, burning music CD's, etc ... and the DVD-ROM for playing games, listening to audio CD's, and playing DVD's.

Toejam31

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[ycs46241]

go with the dvd, the media's are changing my son's new encyclopida is a one dvd instead for seven cd's. plus if you have children the movies like walt d have dvd interactive on it. and if you don't games are comming out on dvd

 

[Arrow]

I'd say only buy what you need - if you don't need the DVD capability, stick to a regular CDROM for now and upgrade / add-on later.
If you need CD writing, then go for a CDRW as well as a read-only device.

Rob
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