Getting a Pioneer will give you native support up to the A07/107 [ which is an 8x burner ] .. I am sure that soon the A08/108 will get native support too .. for now if you want the A08 or any other DVD burner [ I think there might be one or 2 Sony drives that can be supported but not sure ] you'll need to use patchburn which you can find at patchburn.de ..