>>I'm also looking at a DVD fryer (never accepted the word "burn" - CDs look much more like pancakes than wood), but I think I'd go for an internal. I already have too many cables and never enough space on my desk.
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>For me trying to put an internal DVD "fryer" :-) in a notebook is like building a space ship :-). So I will look for external. The advantage with external (IMHO) is you can create/copy CDs/DVDs on other computers as well.

Notebook? Opening it? There be dragons.

I once knew a guy who was servicing laptops. He used one he made out of spare parts, where the cost of restocking would be greater than just discarding the part. I still think he's some sort of magician.