I have couple of months notebook ASUS L5GM and it's very nice. But there is only DVD-CDRW so I would like to upgrade it.

I contacted by e-mail nearest authorized service center and they sent me price for possible DVD-RW drive for ASUS L5 Series notebooks

TOSHIBA SD-R6112 (DVD-R 2X, DVD-RW 1X) L5C Series
PIONEER DVR-K13AS (DVD±R 4X, DVD±RW 2X) L5GM/GA/GX Series

Price for PIONEER DVR-K13AS from ASUS authorized service is 399 USD.

In normal shop price for PIONEER DVR-K14 (DVD±R 8X, DVD±RW 4X, DVD+DL 2.4X) is 187 USD but this drive is probably incompatible with ASUS LGM notebook. (Because it no fit in notebook it is not for interface or something.)

What it's interesting is more than 2 times higher price for drive (PIONEER DVR-K13AS) which is worse like cheaper one (PIONEER DVR-K14) and this all $ for compatibility.

If somebody has better or different information about prices of ASUS L5 optical drives please reply to this topic.

That is just how it goes in the laptop world. If you didn't order it orrigionally they will empty out your wallet for it later.
Gettin lucky on ebay is about the only way to get laptop drives cheap.

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Just get an external USB2.0 or firewire dvd burner. It will be cheaper and probably better.

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All Slim Optical drives (those used in notebooks) are the same in design. Only notebook manufacturers put other casings on them when they want to make them modular. It is not too difficult to unscrew the casing od your current drive and put it onto a new drive that you've bought. Just find a Slim DVD drive that you want, and purchase it.

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RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?