USB 2 is nice all right but that's a bit of monkeying around to retrofit the computer. The good USB 1.0 CDRWs work just fine. Take a look at the Iomega Predator.
Sleeper, you will be happy to hear that HP is taking big hits from their merger with Compaq, our company has ditched them to go with IBM and I am sure other companies will follow as well. HP may be the devil, but I like their printers

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