DVD burners, the new feature in budget PCs

January 16, 2005

free4all used our news submit to tell us "Not too long ago, DVD burners cost THAT much!". This is true, not long ago, as you no doubt well remember, we had to pay around $400 US if we wanted to be one of the proud owners of a DVD re-writer. However time flies, and as a result of the continuous price drops for DVD burners, companies like eMachine and HP now are able to equip even their budget PC's with DVD writers.

Gateway isn't alone. Hewlett-Packard now lets customers upgrade CD-ROM drives to DVD +/-R/RW drives for free on HPshopping.com. Last summer, PCs with DVD burners typically sold in the $600 to $700 range.

Gateway also came out with two models under the $400 barrier, including $50 rebates: the $349 T3624 for $349 and the T3828 for $399. Both come with Celeron processors, 256MB of memory and 60GB to 80GB hard drives.

Read the full article over at ZDNet.

Source: ZD Net