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Optical drives becoming obsolete?
lapa321:
I'm a heavy DVD user (I have over 6 Terabytes of data backed up to DVD's, and yes, that's a lot), these days tho, i rarely use the DVD drive. I just bought a couple of 2TB harddrive and started saving 50Gig ISOs into them. Other than anime archiving, i've probably only used the DVD drive a handful of times in the last couple of years.
megido-rev.M:
Optical discs won't die anytime soon, so long as read-only physical media remains useful (i.e. more economical than actual hard drives).
halfelite:
As have been said nothing new, netbooks,slim laptops have been coming out for years without optical drives. Apple never does anything new they just claim everything as the "NEW" way and everyone eats its up. Optical discs still have a long way to go, While a lot more stuff is "Available online" Legally, there is some things that are still not. Even more so in terms of business software. For most home consumers optical discs can go.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Tri_Edge on June 23, 2012, 10:14:37 PM ---Even if other computer makers do the same, support for external ODDs will still be offered.
But, do you want to be carrying around an external ODD or have it build in?
--- End quote ---
you won't be using the ODD regularly imho, maybe once or twice a day and you don't use it outside of your house most of the time. so which means an external ODD being left at the house would be the most practical thing to do, it saves space on the laptop and decreases weight, or it frees up space for something else.
Mcgreag:
Only reason I have an optical drive on my desktop is because I had one sitting around when building it, but should I ever run out of sata ports it will be the first to go. And in the next desktop I build (current one should last a couple of years at least) I will most likely skip it completely. I'll just make one last flac rip of my CD collection before throwing it out and I won't have any reason to use it anymore. Most of the older games I have on CD I have already bought on Steam anyway and it's been years since I bought a new one on disc.
For laptops I am about to get a new one (my current one is from 2007 and does have an optical drive) and I have several demands on features and performance but an optical drive is not one of them. And considering the other features I want from it I very much doubt it will have an optical drive as well.
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