Go for the TDK and believe it or not Walmart is got a sweet deal running for the burner, 10 40X CDR disks, 2 32XCDR disks, and 1 CDRW disk bundled together, fantastic deal check it out, not to mention PC World gave it a best buy award. And besides the hooplah I've got one myself, and its a thumbs up as far as I'm concerned. Came with NERO burning software and INCD packet writing software.