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Sometimes you have to wonder if the surprises in electronics will ever end. Modern computers do so much, who knows what's coming next. Once, most people were amazed that computers could play CDs. Now, with a CD burner, you can actually record CDs straight from your laptop or desktop computer. You don't even need a specialized media center PC; any computer with the right software can be its own recording studio! And you won't have to be a top ten recording artist to afford it, if you shop at Overstock.com.

CD burners come in two types: CD-R drives and CD-RW drives. CD-R means "compact disc recordable." Once a blank CD-R has been through the CD burner, it becomes a CR-ROM (read-only-memory); you can't record on it again. CD-RW means "compact disc rewriteable." A blank CD-RW can pass through a CD burner hundreds of times, recording new data or music or whatever at each pass. Rewriteable CD burners grew out of recordable CD burners and are backward compatible, but a CD-R drive cannot make a CD-RW. Fortunately, you won't need a new computer if you want to upgrade. Installing an external CD burner is simple: plug in the USB cable, load the driver software and your new CD burner is as much a part of your computer as your old CD burner. If you'd prefer to switch out your current internal CD burner for a new one, the process isn't much more difficult.

Of course, if you really want to upgrade, pick among the new DVD-CD drives. CD DVD drives have a few more options--DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD audio and so on--but a DVD burner is pretty much the top of the line when it comes to storage and blank media. Everyone has heard horror stories about computer system crashes and how much data is lost when computer hardware runs amok--even if it just walks amok, things can get bad for your data. You may be able to replace computer equipment at Overstock.com, and save a boatload of cash in the process, but once data is gone, it is gone. Get "burned" in a good way, with CD burners from Overstock.com.