DVD Burning
My first attempts at DVD burning seem to be rather slow. The DVD-R drive is a Sony badged Lite-On capable of burning at 8x, but seems to be achieving about 10% of that at best, ie 0.75x, using the pre-installed Sonic software on my 6 month old Dell. Loads of free hard drive space, 512mb RAM, decent (not Celeron) processor.
The source DVD is in the D drive, but perhaps it would be faster copying the source material to the C (hard) and copying/burning from there?