*cough* I think not. The HP's a tech support nightmare.
I like my Yamaha 6416S, It's burned only 4 coasters out of the 200+ discs it's gone through, and I can say that 2 of them were my fault(when burning over the network, make sure the computer on the other side does not goto sleep), and the latter 2 were because of a corrupted image. The only thing the Yamaha doesn't support is RAW DAO. I bought it 11 months ago, just a few days before the 8X write version came out. (I was kicking myself for that though.)
If someone is looking just to copy their discs (aka, make back-ups) check to see if it's supported by CloneCD (which is a raw DAO copy software.) If you are into making your own discs only (no copies), just about any cd burner will do. I use Nero (www.ahead.de) as a benchmark to test cd burners with, and I've find that IDE-based cd burners have a higher incidence of coaster generation (usually buffer-underrun, or because they were using a winmodem.)
Last point, if you have a winmodem/software modem, I highly recommend that you disconnect from the internet and unplug it (and disable ICS/autodial) before you burn a CD, most software modems lock up the system for 1-5 seconds to initialize, and that interrupts the data stream for the CD-burner.
--Kisai
"Hmm, I wonder how many pieces this will end up as when it hits the ground?"