NEC 8x DVD-R burner in T4x

[susanna]

anyone know if these work in the T4x series?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827152048

may just buy one anyway, the price seems cheap and many comments on their site mention several good results with many makes of laptops

[NeoteriX]

Will not fit. The T series uses a 9.8 or something mm form factor while this is 12.something. I had a post on slickdeals that summed it up more specifically, but in a nutshell, no i don't believe it will work.

[smugiri]

Sorry, no dice. This wont work. It is pretty much given that the only DVD writers that will go into a T4x are some variant of the Panasonic UJ-8xx series drive, According to spec, this drive has a 12.7mm height while T4x Thinkpads take only 9.5mm height. Check out this thread, this thread, and finally this thread

[MadeInJapan]

Use the NEC in an external enclosure. It will still beat the pants off of the Matshita drive that's in there now.

[alins]

Can you recommend a slim enclosure?

[christopher_wolf]

I don't think there is a slim enclosure that can burn faster than the Multiburner Plus though

I do know that the R5X has one, but that is 12.5mm and not Slim.

[MadeInJapan]

Many options for slim enclosures on NewEgg.com and Tigerdirect.com I'm sure other vendors also sell them at decent prices.

[smugiri]

Unless I did not understand the question here, I think that there are lots of slim line ( that I think are defined as being low height, bus powered ) DVD burners out there that are faster than the IBM multi-burner. The IBM multi-burnerdoes its stuff at 24x (CD-R), 2x (DVD-R), 2.4x(DVD+R) for write and 10x (CD-RW), 2x (DVD-RW), 2.4x ( DVD+RW) re-write while Lite On, Asus and La Cie all give at least 16x (CD), 8x (DVD+R), 8x (DVD-R), 2.4x (DVD+R DL) for write and 10x (CD-RW), 4x (DVD+RW), 4x (DVD-RW) for re-write. Another plus for the options is that they all will do dual layer media at 2.4x while the multi-burner cannot.