On Thursday, October 7, 2004, at 02:38 PM, K wrote: > What I don't understand is why there is such a desperate want (need) > to get to 8x now..Unless there is a life or death situation, it would > seem to me that the older, slightly slower unit that is already paid > for should suffice... If you have a business where some of your clients want 50 copies of their DVD project on DVD-R, the difference between 1X and 8X is huge. And since I have the "older" 2X SuperDrive that only operates at top efficiency with 2X blanks, I have to waste a lot of time trying to find genuine 2X blanks with a white ink jet printable surface ..... Steve R.