Dvd/CD burner

Bally8

Sorry if this question has been answered before but I cant find it.

Im about to buy a Dell Inspiron 1525 and want to know if the DVD burner also burns cds?

The site says its a Optical Drive
8x DVD+/-RW Optical drive, including SW



but I dont actually know what that means. All I want to be able to do is burn cds of music and pictures

Thanks

Sherifu

Yes it will burn cds.

Tom Dunne

Bally8 wrote: »

Sorry if this question has been answered before but I cant find it.

Im about to buy a Dell Inspiron 1525 and want to know if the DVD burner also burns cds?

The site says its a Optical Drive
8x DVD+/-RW Optical drive, including SW



but I dont actually know what that means. All I want to be able to do is burn cds of music and pictures

Thanks

When you see RW anywhere, it generally means Read/Write - i.e. it can read from discs and it can write to them.

DVD obviously means it can do the above to DVDs (i.e. make DVDs), but DVD writers can always create CDs too.

Bally8

Excellent thanks alot- Sorry for total lack of knowledge - I am a blonde!

AlmightyCushion

Tom Dunne wrote: »

When you see RW anywhere, it generally means Read/Write - i.e. it can read from discs and it can write to them.

DVD obviously means it can do the above to DVDs (i.e. make DVDs), but DVD writers can always create CDs too.

I thought it always meant ReWriteable as in it can write to the same disk multiple times (as long as that disc is an rw disk).

tonyboy247

Yes your on the right road there as Tom says DVD burners always burn cds only thing is check if its a duel layer jobbie some of these cheap efforts that are sold burn like wet coal you know.;)

Tom Dunne

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I thought it always meant ReWriteable as in it can write to the same disk multiple times (as long as that disc is an rw disk).

It does, but I was applying the KISS principle.