48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM SINGLE Combo Drive?

[Jelly]

One more question for you guys:

I'm set to purchase a computer tomorrow, and along with the 3.5in. floppy drive, it also comes with a "Single Drive: 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive".

I know I'm probably just worrying too much here, but can this thing play regular CD's as well?

Sorry...it's just that when I last messed around with Windows computers, you needed to have one drive to play/use your CD's (CD-ROM drive) and another seperate one to do the "burning".

Has all this changed and now everything is compiled into one drive?

Thanks.

 

[goldfinger]

Yes, the drive can handle Audio/Data CDs in both read and write mode. It can also read DVD format.

 

[Bob Woods]

Two CD drives are faster, with just one CD drive to make copy it first loads the data to the Hard drive then burns to the cd. With a second drive operating in read only copy times will be faster. If you wish to burn DVD's you can add a DVD burner if you have a expansion CD bay.