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Pioneer DVR-SK12D Review

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  1. tim •  January 20, 2004
    Rating: 3.5/5

    I have to agree with this review. This drive trades good looks and portability for performance. I feel it is a perfect mate to my 12″ Powerbook though, and have no complaints about burn speeds. Works great with Roxio Toast 5.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. SR •  January 21, 2004
    Rating: 2.5/5

    What’s the point of an ultra light and slim portable burner if it isn’t bus-powered? In this day and age why can’t a major manufacturer make a bus powered external slim drive? For the time being we have to make do with no name manufacturers like Buslink, Archos, Storix etc.

    This can’t be that hard to do.

    As a side note there are two DVD burners from major manufacturers that I know are bus powered one is an IBM branded drive that costs $500 and the other is a Sony Vaio part that also costs around $500 if not more.

    I believe Archos makes one for closer to $300, but who wants no name stuff from a company that could go out of business tomorrow?

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Guy Cortes •  March 21, 2004
    Rating: 4.5/5

    Just wanted to note that the unit works on a Mac (PowerBook) as well, thought the article said otherwise. Use toast – not the included programs.

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. M. Andrade •  August 16, 2004
    Rating: 4/5

    Flawless performance on USB connection. For some reason my laptop sometimes does not recognize the drive if connected on Firewire. Or it recognizes it and when I put a blank DVD disk it does not recognize it as a DVD writer. Could be a problem with my laptop set up or the fact I am using a card connector for Firewire.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 2 people found this user review helpful.

  5. Jesse E •  March 10, 2005
    Rating: 4.5/5

    I picked this up from an Air Force base I was deployed to and was impressed. I have an external burner at home, but needed one here and the size was definitely a factor. My other drive is nearly as large as my Dell C400 and weighs more, but this is the size of 2 CD cases stacked on top of one another and weighs next to nothing. Burn speeds arent super, but waht do you expect from a portable drive. For USB 1.1 use i highly reccommend it!

    Rating: 9 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  6. travis •  August 5, 2005
    Rating: 2.5/5

    I can’t believe I just spent 200 dollars on an external/PORTABLE DVD/CD writer that can’t run off USB power!!!

    What’s the point, Pioneer?

    There’s even a deceiving picture of a man on a beach with a laptop… oh how I wish.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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