Internal or External?
The first decision you will need to make is whether you want an internal or an external CD burner. An internal burner is installed in an open bay in your computer (like installing a disk drive), whereas an external drive hooks into your computer through a parallel port (the same thing you use to hook up your printer most likely). The main advantage internal drives have over external drives is that they are cheaper. The advantage of an external drive is that it’s fairly simple to move it from computer to computer. If you have a friend who wants to burn a large quantity of CD’s from you, you can simply let him borrow the burner for a week or so. If you have a laptop computer, you will have to buy an external drive, because to my knowledge nobody has made an internal CD burner for a laptop yet.
