My 6200 came to me with a dead PRAM battery, which I removed, and its never skipped a beat. I think the myth comes from the 6100, which shares a similar model number, and does suff…
I'd love the mini-CD drive as well. I have quite a few mini-CDs; and I'd happily burn some of my software to one (mini-CD-Rs are easy to find,) to install on there.