CD drive help needed. newbie dumb question warning.

[timmyn]

Hi.  I dont know much about these things, so here it goes, and thankyou in advance for helping.
I have a Dell D610, and a Dell 620.  The I have to turnn the D620 back into work(it's basically brand new), but they are donating a bunch of laptops to a school.
My question is, the 610 I'm keeping has a working but used for a year or so TS-L162c Cd-Rom drive.  The 620 I have to surrender has a HL-DT-ST GCC4244 CDRW/DVD    I noticed I could switch one w/ the other, but should I?  Is the other one really any better?  Will I have to switch any drivers or anything?  Thankyou gain for any help in this matter.

[patio]

Sounds like a moral dilemna...i'd ask the IT people if they mind and if not swap in the newer model.
It shouldn't need drivers if it's running anything later than WinME...

[timmyn]

Thanks for the reply.  I'll switch the unit then.  They are fine w/ doing that, I just wondered if one was better than the other.   Incidently the reason they are dumping the 620's is they have surpluses of 610 batteries, and none for the 620, so they figured it would be cheaper to keep the 610's out there.

[patio]

Thanks for the reply.  I'll switch the unit then.  They are fine w/ doing that, I just wondered if one was better than the other.   Incidently the reason they are dumping the 620's is they have surpluses of 610 batteries, and none for the 620, so they figured it would be cheaper to keep the 610's out there.

Don't ya just Love Corporate logic ? ?

Have them send me one...i'll pay shipping/insurance.
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