Compusa Norwood Micro drives on sale at Fridays Midnight madness sale

On Friday Compusa is having their Midnight Madness sale. The Norwood Micro drives will be on sale again for $39.99 after instant and mail in rebate. This drive is a rebadged 1650. I know you can get it for less from newegg.com but for those who rather buy from a local retailer here's your chance to purchase one.

http://f.chtah.com/i/45/143882431/NationalMidnight.pdf

Thanks for the heads up. Buying the CompUSA 1650 for $69 still smarts. Hopefully they'll take that one back and I can save $30. It's been less than 10 days.
KBX

The drive can be easily identify. The model should be DD1640 for a BenQ 1640. The price is alright, not like a must dive in. People buy it at that price not because of the deal, because the BenQ 1640 is getting rarer to get.

There's no need for you to return the drive to them. Just take in your receipt and they'll credit you then recharge you the new amount with the instant rebate. That way you'll be able to get the mail in rebate automatically.

ghetocowboy wrote:I know my local Compusa no longer has the 1640 drives. They only have the 1650's. Consider yourself lucky if you can find a 1640 at your local Compusa.

Picked one a DW1650 last night just to try it out, even though they had at least three 1640s. But it's going back, not too satisfied about its quality; just tried a burn and it wouldn't even read back what it wrote.

You should have picked up the 1640 drive which is hard to find nowdays!

If the price was the same I would have bought all 3.

My 1640 kicks major @$$, my 1655 trails far behind. Dont know why he returned the 1640, should at least play with the firmware before you return it. And burning on one disc does not give the 1640 justice.

No one said about returning a 1640, and I said returning a 1650. My post was ambiguous about "a burn," but should've said "another burn," that couldn't be read back.

I have two 1640s already, (real one and Sony 810A), so I just wanted to compare the 1650 up against them. I know, two 1640s is a crying shame for you guys having 6+ of them...

Just wondering why anyone would pay $39.00+tax at CompUSA when you can get an OEM 1650 at NewEgg for $32, no tax, and free 3 day shipping?

Some prefer retail stores because it's convenient and if it's not working properly, it can be exchanged relatively easily, and not having to go through the manufacturer or reseller, in which the latter could inflict a restocking fee. It's not always about the price.

saurus wrote: KTL wrote: saurus your comment is a good one for those that live in the 48 states but for those in Hawaii and Alaska we are not fortunate to get FREE SHIPPING from Newegg.com. Shipping is from $17.64 and up for Hawaii and Alaska. I'm in Hawaii so going to COMPUSA for a rebadged BENQ 1650 is ideal. As KTL mentioned some prefer a retail store because it's convenient to return a defective drive and there would be no restocking fees.

Is there a way to identify if the drive is a 1640 from the box alone? or would one need to actually get into the box and see the drive itself?

Thanks, Snedman

Snedman,

On the back, lower right corner just above the UPC, you'll see either "DW1640" or "DW1650". Looking at the front a 1640 side-by-side with a 1650, the 1640 artwork is a different shade from the 1650 - same art, but different shade.

I just picked up a 1640 from CompUSA on Abilene in Aurora - they had several dozen of each on the shelves.

But... what makes the 1640 more desirable than the 1650 - the 1650 adds "SolidBurn" which sounds like a good thing. Is it not?

Robert

Robert,

I appreciate the information concerning how to distinguish the two models by the box.

I thought the 1640 was capable of SolidBurn with some firmware upgrade?

If I knew the new 16-50/55 was just as good as some of the members indicate that the 1640 is, I would just buy the 16-50/55. Not that I need or would use LightScribe/55 (at least for another year - lower disc prices)

I am just at a loss for why my TDK 840G won't burn DVD or DVD Data discs anymore. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing, changed and used at least 3 different ASPI layers, tried firmware upgrades/downgrades, made sure DMA was enabled, etc.. I have tried Verbatim, Memorex, Ridata, Optodisc, Ritek, Prodisc, OfficeDepot brand media DVD-R and DVD+R I have also tried several different brands of RW. Maybe the drive is just dead for theDVD protion. It burns CD just fine though.

I am not a heavy user with it either. Only thing I haven't tried doing is changing my NEC-2500A or the Lite-On out of my other PC and testing to see if they fail as well and its something with the OS. Software I have used Nero, Dvd Decrypter, Roxio. It will burn all them to the end but none will play. It does the same for game discs.

1640 supports SolidBurn since BSLB , the only difference is that 165x have SB logo on the faceplate .

minaelromany - Thanks for that info.

Well, I guess the TDK840G is bad after all and not anything else. I swapped the NEC-2500 out into the PC the TDK was in, and it burned a game disc fine and a movie disc. They both played fine. So that concludes that pondering.

I guess I will stop by CompUSA tomorrow and see if they have the 1640 models available.

Snedman