But, like I have said before, media needs to keep up with the burn speeds of the new drives or it really does the consumer no good to buy a 16x burner if 8x media is still hard to come by...
This is true

Well, I am still debating whether or not to get the pioneer or the nec now, or just mooch off my room mate until the summer. I hate having money to spend... it always burns a hole in my pocket (when it comes to computers that is ).