Well, Roundhill apparently thought otherwise, and I don't see what's nuts about it either. Whether it will make things easier though remains the question, I found my CD-RW700's functionality to be rather limited when I used it as a recorder. But it does work, and burns CDs.I'm quite sure the OP meant a simple USB CD drive, not a recorder. It would be nuts to go from an all digital world to analog to digital again, wouldn't it?