BUYER BEWARE! I would have given this product 5 stars except for the fact that the optical drive is read/play only. After spending and inordinate amount of time trying to burn cd"s, I went back and read the "fine" print on the computer's description and it does say that the DVD is ROM, which to the layman that I am stands for "Read Only Memory". Too bad they do not spell this out for the customer. One of the major reasons I bought this was to create my own dvd's and cd's. So now I must purchase an external "writable" drive.