On Wed February 1 2006 14:17, Alberto Botti wrote: > They include PlexTools Professional > (http://www.plextools.com/info/info.asp) with every retail > drive, and they sell an enhanced version called Plextools > Professional XL. All of their software requires Microsoft > Windows. >From the forum thread someone linked to earlier, judging by the wording of the letter received by the developer, it might actually be the name they were really objecting to: "pxtools" seems like it'd be different enough to me, but then, Lindows had to change their name based on "-dows", so maybe just taking out the "le" from PlexTools wasn't enough. Regardless, it was a lousy thing to do. > > This is one of the worst things I've seen a vendor try to > > pull. I'm never buying another Plextor. > > Me too. And it doesn't help that my PX-716A likes to make > coasters out of almost half the perfectly good CDs I put in > it... Plextors were the best until 2 or 3 years ago, and then something happened. Now the name means nothing.... just another brand of drives, maybe made by Plextor, maybe rebadged. I try to buy LiteOn drives nowadays, especially for DVD burners... they may be the closest thing to "generic" that you can get (I discovered them by buying some rebadged drive by Yamaha or Memorex and finding it was a LiteOn), but I've never made a single coaster with one. Granted I've never tried to do with LiteOn drives the kinds of things pxtools is supposed to let you do with Plextor drives. Rob
