well.. IMHO, why not? you get to burn 16x instead of 12x, but of course, media is always a consideration, if you have tons of media that won't work at 16x (it really depends, I have some 4x Taiyo Yuden that'll work with my 12x no prob), and force you to burn at 12x, then it's probably not worth the money. How much burning do you plan to do? if you plan to do mass distro, a minute faster is a minute saved.