saw this in purley tesco extra. should be nation wide.
Nationwide Deal.
Had them In The Pitsea Store.
- justabout72
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accyuklad
1 Jul 161#1
I check my store later as I wont mind one
DazLFC
1 Jul 16#2
are these compatible with all laptops/notebooks etc?
delpo to DazLFC
1 Jul 16#3
it's just a usb dvd drive, not something you should try and fit inside a laptop as it won't be suitable for a huge amount of laptops.
dvd internal drives come in all sorts of sizes, screw holes in different places etc.. different size bezels and so on.
If you are using it as intended as a usb drive it should work on all modern laptops with a decent spec.
DazLFC
1 Jul 16#4
sorry, Im a bit useless when it comes to technology, so as a 'usb' drive, is it feasible that this would also connect to a tablet via a mini hdmi to usb converter cable...say for the transfer of music to tablet from cd's?? or indeed, I bought my wife a hp 11.1" windows 10 notebook, with no internal dvd rw, but it does have usb port, would it work in this? sorry, like I say, I am useless with this stuff
oxocubeman
1 Jul 16#5
Will certainly do for the laptop.
delpo
1 Jul 161#6
should be fine.some of the old netbooks had tiny storage in those cases i wouldn't bother. 4gb hard drives and the like.
regcar
1 Jul 16#7
Will work fine on any computer with USB port. Windows should automatically detect. Can sometimes be interesting if DVD writer already installed. Sometimes does not like 2 DVD drives, but why do this?
On EBAY USB 2.0 DVD/CD external drives for around £6. If coming from China can take up to three weeks or so. A USB 2.0 is perfectly good enough even for a USB 3.0 port (downwards compatible). Should come with cable. Quality will be fine. All built in China anyway.
DazLFC to regcar
1 Jul 16#8
and regarding a usb adaptor so it can be connected to an android tablet for example, would this work or would it not even recognise an external dvd writer?
jamhole
1 Jul 16#9
op, tesco Purley is my local tesco! how many were on shelf?
I've been thinking of getting one of these for backup purposes. and for £6 I'll happily bite. but I won't get home to Purley until about 7pm tonight. would be nice to know how many they had on shelf. thanks
jamhole
1 Jul 16#10
some external dvd drives do work with android.
no idea if this does though.
have a look on amazon
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Nationwide Deal.
Had them In The Pitsea Store.
- justabout72
All comments (25)
dvd internal drives come in all sorts of sizes, screw holes in different places etc.. different size bezels and so on.
If you are using it as intended as a usb drive it should work on all modern laptops with a decent spec.
On EBAY USB 2.0 DVD/CD external drives for around £6. If coming from China can take up to three weeks or so. A USB 2.0 is perfectly good enough even for a USB 3.0 port (downwards compatible). Should come with cable. Quality will be fine. All built in China anyway.
I've been thinking of getting one of these for backup purposes. and for £6 I'll happily bite. but I won't get home to Purley until about 7pm tonight. would be nice to know how many they had on shelf. thanks
no idea if this does though.
have a look on amazon