My 2 DVD burners which were burning at 4X started only burning at 2.8X even with the latest firmware. My resource needy programs start making things run slow. My AMD XP 2400 processor w/ 1GB of Ram started running like a 500mhz PIII.
wow. I have a DVD burner but I've only burned CDs so far. I have XP on a 1.6ghz Shuttle mini w/256MB RAM and a dual Xeon 1.8ghz w/1GB RAM. It's fairly snappy on both.