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Optical drives becoming obsolete?
megido-rev.M:
The discs won't become obsolete, but for most of us they won't be used frequently (e.g. rip the disc, then mount it on virtual drive), so like others have mentioned it's not necessary to install them inside laptops.
MTR:
I tend to be indifferent of Apple, but I definitely support this decision. Just recently I made the decision to basically free myself from opticial media. I bought a netbook for my mobile computing needs, and ripped all of my CD Rom software to ISO files. All of my music and DVDs are also ripped to my desktop server as well. Although I still buy physical media, it is only for collecting purposes and most of it just sits on my shelf. I have no plans of ever buying a bluray player because that is not a road I want to go down. I am much more interested in seeing advancements in the digital and streaming scene than I am in the physical media scene.
That said, I dont have any plans of getting rid of the DVD burner on my desktop anytime soon. The fact is, there is still a need for optical media support although it is dwindling. Not to mention, a lot of my friends and family, especially those not well versed in computers,
dont share the optimism for digital and cloud usage as I do. There is a reason I am burning season 4 of Breaking Bad to DVD-R as I type this.
shabutie:
I haven't had a disk drive in my computer for 3-4 years now. Haven't needed one. That's what torrents and flash drives are for. :P
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: revo on June 24, 2012, 09:03:20 AM ---USB bluray drives are too slow and too expensive
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--- Quote from: vuzedome on June 24, 2012, 09:46:57 AM ---It's not really sensible to be running a BD external drive over USB. :P
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USB 2.0, maybe. But this is 2012.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: 1212magicman on June 24, 2012, 10:00:52 AM ---I think that optical disc drives are obsolete on a laptop. On a desktop they are extremely crucial, especially if you burn games.
However, on a laptop you have only so much space, and a SSD in the optical bay is a lot more useful than a disc player that you may never use.
This however, brought a concern to me. With no disc drive, what happens if you need to restore? I understand you can boot from USB, but still... there were a lot of hacking programs I used to love that required a dvd to use. For example OPHCrack
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you can boot of a usb dvd rom just fine if the bios supports it. and most without a drive do, Plus all the ones with no drive the restore process is on a partition on the drive from factory
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