Designed by Sam Hecht, manufactured by LaCie

Sep 20, 2007 08:59 GMT  ·  By

LaCie announced the launch of another line of products designed by the well known industrial designer Sam Hecht and this time we are talking about portable optical disc drives that come with the latest technologies enabled.

On the outside the new LaCie Portable DVD burning optical drives are sporting a slim and stylish design with a great focus on clean lines and with no visible feet, switches or breaks in its exterior casing. The portable drive is less than one inch tall and it is very lightweight, while supporting high speed data transferring interfaces like USB 2.0 and FireWire. As the entire drive is powered through the very same data transferring cable, the new LaCie optical disc drive provides true mobility for Mac and personal computer users.

''Design and functionality have always been key elements when developing new product families,'' said Anne Bordet, LaCie Product Manager. ''Burning professional-looking CD/DVDs in any work environment is made easy through Sam Hecht's simple and elegant design coupled with buspower, LightScribe labeling and a complete software suite.''

The LaCie portable DVD burner comes in two versions, the USB based one and the FireWire enabled one. The USB version comes with the Easy Media Creator Suite 9 for Windows bundled software application, while the FireWire model is bundled with Toast 8 Titanium, a complete media burning solution, which is compatible with Mac OS.

Apart from this features, the LaCie drives are coming with integrated LightScribe technology, in order to allow users to burn professional looking and completely customizable labels directly on top of the disc. This technology is based on a specialized software solution, a hardware compatible drive and a specially coated series of optical drives and it allows users to create text, images and art labels for their CDs or DVDs.

The LaCie portable DVD burners are available now from the retail channel at a price of $99.99 for the LaCie Portable DVD?RW Drive with LightScribe USB 2.0 version and $149.99 for the LaCie Portable DVD?RW Drive with LightScribe FireWire model.