Plextor eats lunch on other side of the cafeteria

It's kind of like the nerdy kid vs. the cool kid—the nerdy kid has a lot less in the looks department, but gets the math homework done.  That's Plextor; well, it was Plextor, apparently it's not anymore.  I guess we might feel a little bitter they've traded up from their classic Plexmax series to sit at the cool table, but their PlexWriter PX-712UF, aside from being really good look'n, has USB 2.0 and Firewire interfaces, writes DVD+R at 12X,
DVD-Rs at 8X, DVD+RWs at 4X, DVD-RWs at 4X, and CD-RWs at 24X, and something they call Lossless Linking/Zero Link technology, which allows for basic editing tasks directly to the DVD without reburning the whole thing.  Oh Plextor, we're going to miss you.