Why is my DVD ROM/CD-RW drive ripping CDs so slowly?

The 52x 32x 52x speeds are the maximum possible write speeds. The drive will not maintain that over the entire CD.

Still you should be ripping a CD pretty quickly, probably in a few minutes.

As iTunes rips the tracks it has to encode them into the iTunes compressed format, it may be that you are filling the read buffer quickly, and then iTunes is CPU limited in how fast it can take the data to encode and compress it.

Did you format the the CD? Secondly.. your laptop has a DVD establishing.. does it have a CD establishing.. you comprehend.. you push a sprint button and it opens and you place your CD in? You indicated that it did no longer.. Mine has the two and that i'm shocked which you haven't any longer have been given the two.. Are you particular? If yours says DVD.. then you relatively won't be able to use it for a CD