if satan made cd burners.
Written: Oct 10 '00
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Pros: would probably make a great paperweight or doorstop.
Cons: EVIL EVIL DEVICE. product of satan.
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| scottq's Full Review: Sony SPRESSA USB Burner |
quick, easy system backups.
ability to make audio mix cds.
simple portability with usb.
these are the things that an external usb burner should have. the sony spressa usb had none of them.
the first thing i noticed when installing was that sony REALLY REALLY wants you to be using microsoft windows98. no 2000 support, no NT drivers on the cd (you need to go download them), no acknowledgement of linux.
(i didnt necessarily expect linux drivers, it just would have been nice, you know?)
the box came with two blank sony cdrs. this was good, because out of the seven cdrs this burner effectively made into useless coasters, at least two of them werent payed for seperately.
first off, sony forces you to use their proprietary software to burn. a usb device, youd think the drivers might work with other software. adaptec? nope. wincdr? nope. nothing but spressaburner or whatever it was called. whatever, fine. this would have maybe been acceptable had the software worked. it crashed EVERY TIME 'disc-at-once' was selected. system freeze. cant even end task on the program.
about a week later and ONE successful burn (i have no idea how i accomplished this miracle), i lent the burner to my friend megan. boom, as soon as she installed the spressa installation software, her computer broke. "oh, thats probably a coincidence," i thought, "it didnt crash my computer." so i lent it to my friend scott. boom! his broke, too. the same problem on both of hteir computers: it wouldnt recognize any ATAPI (cdrom, mostly) devices on their computer. both had to reinstall windows.
i took the drive back, and the same problem occurred on my machine. f*ck.
i tried calling tech support, sat on hold for half an hour, and was told that there was a dll conflict and that all i had to do was rename a dll on my system to get my atapi drives working again. "oh," i said, "nice development guys you have there."
id had enough, and took the burner back to compusa. the guy i returned it to said "oh, weve been having a lot of these returned." yeah, maybe because it doesnt work? yeah. i exhcnaged it for an hp usb burner which works 100% of the time. nary a mis-burn. it was the sony, yo.
dont buy this product. until sony learns how to program device drivers for usb, ill never buy another sony product. stick to the manufacturers who know what they're doing, i guess.
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Member: scott schneider
Location: madison, wi.
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