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Product:
CRW2100E
Company: Yamaha
Website: http://www.yamaha.com
Estimated Street Price: $249.00
Review By:
Julien JAY
Final
Results and Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the
review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for
the Yamaha CRW2100E IDE burner.
Final
Comments
How
It Grades |
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Installation:
95%
Performance: 95%
Standard
Compatibility:
90%
Reliability:
95%
Ability to produce error
free CD: 95%
Design: 90%
Manual: 95%
Bundled Software: 85%
Price:
80%
Overall: 91%
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The Yamaha CRW2100E burner is a top-notch high-speed
burner model priced at a very competitive price that leaves other models far
behind, in the dust. We’re still wondering why Yamaha called this model a
burner; indeed it looks more like a rocket! Packed with a blank CD-R, a blank
high speed CD-RW, and powerful burning software provided by Adaptec we don’t
find any drawbacks for this model. It’s also the first burner that was
obviously designed with music lovers in mind to offer them a high-speed
digital audio extraction. So we strongly recommend it to everyone that
frequently burns CDs as its high speed will make the difference and save your
previous time. But when the X-race will end?
Specs
& Package |
Overall
Score |
91% |
Version
Reviewed |
Yamaha CRW2100 E with
firmware 1.0G |
Release
Date |
Available
now! |
In
The Box? |
1
burner with screws, audio & IDE cables,
1 Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02E CD,
1 free stuff CD that includes Adobe ActiveShare, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Neato
CD Labeler Kit,
1 user's guide. |
The
Good Points |
Nice design
High Speed 16x CR-RRecording
High Speed 10x CD-RW Recording
High Speed 40x Digital Audio Extraction
Supports every CD standard
Few CPU resources occupation |
The
Bad Points |
Noisy
Unable to read DVD-Rom |
Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
4 1.5 Ghz
Intel D850GB Motherboard
Windows Millennium Edition
384 MB PC800 RDRAM w/ECC
DirectX 8
17" Sony Trinitron Monitor
Hercules
3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb AGP 4x Graphics Card
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Adaptec 19160 Ultra SCSI card
Pinnacle Studio DV Plus
Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB
Microsoft
TrackBall Explorer
Microsoft
Natural Keyboard Pro
DVD Pioneer 105s (16/40x) |
PC
Required |
Minimum System
Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT 4.0 SP3/2000
Pentium 100Mhz or greater
32Mb of RAM
CD-Rom Drive
One free 5' 1/4 slot
One free IDE connector
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