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Dirt-Cheap Desktops With DVD

Rewritable DVD drives appear on some very affordable PCs.

By Alan Stafford   

Most desktop PC vendors offer rewritable DVD drives with their high-end systems, but a few are starting to include them on low-priced PCs as well. Two new value models on our Top 15 Desktop PCs chart reflect this tendency: The $1139 ABS Bravado 2280 and the $1349 HP Pavilion 764N each come with a 4X DVD+RW drive.

The trend extends to notebooks, too. The value-priced Toshiba Satellite 2455-S305 on our Top 15 Notebook PCs chart has a DVD-RW drive but no floppy drive. The new Best Buy on the power side, Toshiba's Tecra S1, packs a DVD-ROM and CD-RW combo drive, but it can't burn DVDs.

Freelance writers Dan Littman, Mick Lockey, and Carla Thornton, and PC World reviews editors Richard Baguley, Eric Butterfield, Rebecca Freed, Alexandra Krasne, Kalpana Narayanamurthi, Melissa J. Perenson, and Alan Stafford contributed to the Top 100 section this month. Ulrike Diehlmann, Julio Giannobile, Elliott Kirschling, Jeff Kuta, Tony K. Leung, and Thomas Luong of the PC World Test Center performed testing on the products reviewed in this section, with logistical support from Julian Weatherby.

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