Do you find your laptop's cd drive to be reliable?

Or do you have problems with it, requiring replacement?

Still working fine.

Only a year and a half old.

The replacement is kind of pricey too.

all were older machines, and the drives all worked fine. What I had problems with was dying keyboards. The keyboards keep croaking on me.

CD/DVD player -- writer -- still works without a hitch.

Meanwhile my friend who bought a Toshiba at about the same time has had all sorts of problems with both her computer and CD player. When she brought her computer in for repair she was told that they were seeing a lot of Toshibas crashing -- next to useless.

http://www.abspc.com

These computers have been getting high rankings by the computer magazines --

My computer travels well and operates at times in the tropics. Also on a boat. We use the DVD player to watch movies.

Meanwhile -- avoid Sony computers -- this is another lemon. It worked for one month -- and the "repair" made the problems worse. We bought a separate CD USB Sony player and this lightly used player is still working.

My toshiba has not crashed even once.

And my Mom has had a Sony for about three years...no problems.

I have a couple of IT friends. One designs and builds networks for TV stations literally all over the world. They both told me that Toshiba was the one to get when I was shopping (a decision I spent 6 months making). Neither one knows the other...and they both told me the same thing...Toshiba's can take a licking...they're tanks.

Aside from the CD/DVD player...I haven't had one problem. And I would blame that on TEAC...the maker of the drive.

and had it shipped down to the Caribbean when her new Toshiba crashed.

She swears by her old Toshiba -- but the new one (new last year) apparently this particular model has some bugs and many are being seen in the repair shop.

Last year she was a walking ad for Toshiba -- and this year she isn't.

Sony had a bad batch of which we bought one -- and Sony had rotten customer service. The computer should have been replaced -- so I just won't buy another Sony product.

Thankfully we have lots of choices and when one turns out to be a bad choice we can find another brand.

It has occaisional problems recognizing a disk in the past few weeks, but it's traveled a lot, so I'm happy with its performance.

It's a writeable drive, has worked flawlessly, and I've heard of no problems with them.

I worry more over the hard drive, or the known problem with my iBooks model of logic board, and suspect I'll buy a replacement iBook before this ones CD drive becomes problematic.

The only problem I've had with my G4 is that when I plug it in to certain outlets, it won't shut off properly when I'm done. I have to remove the battery, but it doesn't seem to damage it any.

Certain outlets? That's odd. Can't see why one would be any different than another. Maybe your habits are different at one than another? For example, ones at home and the other's at work, so you open and close the iBook in a different fashion at each location?

I've gotten mine "confused" a couple times by almost, but not quite, latching it closed a couple times before actually getting it closed. Sometimes it takes a few attempts to shut it down or sleep it after that?

Actually, a thought just occured. Since I have a wireless card and my school has wireless networking, whenever I log on when at school I get the school's wireless network signal, so I can work either on or off the network. Since our network constantly flubs up, I think it's actually a problem with it trying to disconnect from the network while it's shutting off the power intake rather than the power source itself.

::knocks on wood:: Had it for about a year.