Posts by spikerjack

The Dell Accessories site is offering (2) auto/air adapters that appear to be designed for my Precision M70 and select other power-hungry notebooks (D-Series, some Inspirons, etc). One is shown as 130-watt and the other is 90-watt. The...

Well...so far I have heard that there are certain types of media that will in fact burn at 8x on the 6500a. So far: -- Platinum 8x DVD+R (code RICOHJPN R02) -- TDK 8x DVD+r (code CMC mag e01 (?)) Seem to burn at 8x. With people...

Good to hear we can get 8x write speeds on this drive. What specific media are you using? Have you only tried that type? Thanks in advance.

I was fortunate to get a NEC 6100a DVDRW drive as a repair replacement for my Precision M60 and noticed that it supposedly supported 8x DVD writes to +R media. I immediately found some Ridata 8x DVD+Rs and tried to get Alcohol 120%,...

Raj, Can I assume this same adapter will work with the Precision M60, albeit in 70w battery optimized mode? Also...the Aussie adapter you mentioned...any reason why that could not be purchased by somebody here if they REALLY wanted...