Whats the best burner for a laptop?

[jcf_81]

When I bought my laptop last year I also bought a HP 8200 CD Writer Plus External for my laptop. It worked great for me until I upgraded from 98SE to Win2000.

I made many 1:1 copies with it using Easy CD Creator 3 and no other software with it. It won't burn past 4X though I think my computer limited that respect of it. I picked an external drive so that I could copy directly from one cd to another. ALthough from what I have read that is bad. I'm still a newb at this backup stuff.