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Laptop without disk drive

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arr4ws

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What is your opinion about this? I want to buy a new laptop (HP envy 15) but it come with no dvd/cd drive.

what is your opinion about this?

i dont remember the last time i used my disk on my actual laptop.
 
Optical drives do come in handy from time to time especially for software installs. Unless you're planing to use optical media for movies and such its not really a problem.

Just get an external USB drive if you like the machine otherwise.
 
With bootable USB flash drives and the size/cost of flash drives, legal torrents of products, CD/DVD roms aren't really needed. But if you buy an application, DVD and your laptop is the only form of a computer, then you should at least have an external DVD-RW device.

I have an external DVD-RW and flash drives to go with my main computer just to have, I guess.
 
The optical drive on my dell xfr had been missing for a few months before I found it in a different laptop bag. I have a battery in place of it in that notebook.

As someone else said get a usb dvdrw unless you want an internal optical drive to watch movies or something.
 
i already got an external dvd drive.I just wanted the opinion of people here about the new trend.
 
i grabbed envy15 myself and i see no problem with external dvd i rarely use physical media anymore
sure it comes in handy to have built in but how often now days?
 
I think it's a great trade-off decision made by HP.
Availability of four RAM slots is better than having a DVD/CD drive, which has lost much of its importance nowadays.
 
My laptop unfortunately doesn't have a CD/Dvd Drive. There have been times where I would've liked to have one...Times when I didn't have my external handy because it needs to plugged into an outlet :(

Battery life is better without the drive though and usually anything that's on a CD/DVD you can download.

If it was me I would never get a computer without a CD/DVD drive, because it's more of a nuisance, but go with what fits your needs, not mine! :D

GL
 
King Icewind said:
My laptop unfortunately doesn't have a CD/Dvd Drive. There have been times where I would've liked to have one...Times when I didn't have my external handy because it needs to plugged into an outlet :(

Battery life is better without the drive though and usually anything that's on a CD/DVD you can download.

If it was me I would never get a computer without a CD/DVD drive, because it's more of a nuisance, but go with what fits your needs, not mine! :D

GL
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I have one that will run off 2 usb ports. I found a case for a standard laptop dvdrw and threw a spare drive in it(I had bought the drive to fix another system and ended up ordering a different drive because the front bezel off the old drive wasn't going to work on it).
 
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