This portable external DVD reader and writer ("burner") is ideal for laptop use. Its small size makes it easy to take with you, and there's no separate power supply or lead required- both data and power are taken from the single USB cable that connects it to your laptop or desktop computer!The USB interface is USB 2.0 compatible for data transfer at up to 480 Mbps (backwards compatible with USB 1.1 at slower speed).Read and write to DVD or CD at amazingly fast speeds.This portable external DVD burner is compatible with the following:-* Microsoft Windows (Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and Me)* Apple Mac OS X* Linux (most standard recent PC Linux distributions, including Ubuntu)Image above for illustration purposes only
