Lite-On IT plans to offer external USB slim-type DVD burners in the third quarter of 2008, targeting owners of UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs), Eee PCs and other low-cost portable PCs that do not have built-in DVD burners, according to industry sources. Although hard disk drive (HDD) vendors have carried external HDDs for several years, external DVD burners still have market potential due to the much lower prices of blank optical discs, the sources indicated.
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they've been making them for years
When I needed one for me Eee I went for the LG GSA-E50L, really stylish but also a bit on the expensive side.
http://www.discworlduk.co.uk/LG-8x-Ext.-DV...it-p-47648.html
http://www.discworlduk.co.uk/LiteOn-8x-Ext...it-p-49877.html
That last one looks pretty nice.
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