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There are some cheap external DVD burners on E-Bay - I just got one. I havn't burned anything on it yet, but it played a DVD no problem and seems to work ok.

The really amazing thing is that it is IBM branded - I think it may be the same as the IBM External Slim Multiburner.

I got this one
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... &rd=1&rd=1

Not bad for $70 shipped

You should consider trying to burn DVDs.
Have you taken photos, share please.

$70 shipped is not bad at all.

I have one of these units (though mine came with a slightly different cable set -- the power plug could draw power from either a second USB port, or a PS/2 port) and it works excellently.

The only issue I noticed was that the top of the case is a bit flexy, so if you were pressing down on the leading edge of the case top, you couldn't push the DVD tray all the way back in. Minor quibble though, I'd buy another one in a heartbeat, should I need another external DVD burner (or even a slim DVD burner for a SFF desktop PC..)

What is the size of the actual drive height (9.5mm / 12.7mm / other)? Would like to know if one could swap a ThinkPad ultrabay drive into one of those.

bontistic wrote:What is the size of the actual drive height (9.5mm / 12.7mm / other)? Would like to know if one could swap a ThinkPad ultrabay drive into one of those.

Yeah, I was asking a similar question in a different thread: Is there any way to use an Ultrabay drive as an external (read: USB) device? I'm very curious.

Hey, Just burned my first disk - it works great!!!!

I love this thing - its so small and I'm really happy it came IBM branded.
No guarentees that they all will be - they didn't advertize it.

I saw that other thread too, and it looked likely.

I might get one.

rek wrote:I have one of these units (though mine came with a slightly different cable set -- the power plug could draw power from either a second USB port, or a PS/2 port) and it works excellently.

The only issue I noticed was that the top of the case is a bit flexy, so if you were pressing down on the leading edge of the case top, you couldn't push the DVD tray all the way back in. Minor quibble though, I'd buy another one in a heartbeat, should I need another external DVD burner (or even a slim DVD burner for a SFF desktop PC..)

Just got one with the same cable set. It was not IBM branded.

hi there,

it seems [censored] similar to the one i bought a cpouple of weeks ago over here in europe. once i opened the casing, i found it to be the same manufacturor as nci labeled housing had inside!

and another point:

being in contact with an ibm distributor who refurbishes used machines like leased t40s, he ordered a whole shipment of ac adapters fom hongkong- once i saw one of these adapters- and i can tell you one thing: no chance of figuring out whether or not it was orig ibm, it sure had all the labels, look and so.... but it definitely was NOT orig ibm!!

I can confirm that it is fake IBM product from Hong Kong businessman. There are lots of fake IBM Thinkpad parts from Hong Kong. Another example is fake Thinkpad battery.

They shoud be banned as trademark theft.

Selling mine

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=299287

Decided this was too clumsy a solution

crazyfrog wrote:I can confirm that it is fake IBM product from Hong Kong businessman. There are lots of fake IBM Thinkpad parts from Hong Kong. Another example is fake Thinkpad battery.

They shoud be banned as trademark theft.

Yeah, though in my case it wasn't IBM branded. I wonder why.