Buy him a BURN-proof (or similar technology) CD-RW writer then it should be
fine 99% of the time. He may not be able to burn at 16X or 24X with the
system he has, but 8X should be fine. To be sure, find out the average data
transfer rate of his HD. For example 12X = 1800K/sec. In order to write at
that speed, your HD has to have higher transfer rate than that number.
BURN-proof can help if the HD is at borderline speed.


At 03:04 AM 12/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>My sister wants to get my dad a CD-RW drive for Christmas, but all he has is
>an E-Machine with a Celeron CPU.  It's either a 333 or a 366.  I don't
>remember which.  Anyway, it has a 5400RPM ATA-33 hard drive and 192 megs of
>SDRAM.  Is that enough horsepower for either an external CD-RW or an internal?

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