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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: CD ROM Drives
Message-ID: <48599@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 04:48:05 GMT
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amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>Has anyone had a chance to try the new NEC portable CD-ROM drive?
>The size and the ability to double as a battery-powered audio CD
>player make it very attractive, as does the price, but I imagine there's
>a catch somewhere...

The reviews I've seen say that the two things wrong with this drive are
poor software (which could be fixed by buying the Optical Media
International or Trantor Systems driver) and abysmally slow access time
(AVERAGE of 1.5 seconds, compared to ~400 milliseconds on most drives.)

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"