Machine 2012 left out the optical drive, and we
caught grief from so many readers, you would
have thought we’d executed Daryl from the
Walking Dead or something (the only person
worth a damn in the zombie apocalypse in that
show). The optical drive, it seems, wasn’t past
its prime and to be relegated to the dust bin
along with the phonebook and Rolodex. We got
the message and this year we went big with not
one, but t wo LGWH16NS40 Blu-ray burners. Not
only are these drives capable of burning Blurays at 16x speeds, they can also burn BD-XL
discs. For those who don’t have subscriptions to
Optical Discs Quarterlyor Maximum Burn, that’s
the latest multi-layer Blu-ray spec. Triple-layer
BD-XL discs pack in 100GB of data and quadlayer discs gives you 125GB of data. One thing
to note: Don’t expect to start burning your data
to BD-XL discs and handing them out like you do
with DVD-Rs. A single triple-layer BD-XL runs
from $30 to $50, and we haven’t seen a quadlayer disc in the wild yet.
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