Anthony Basile - Do I Still Need A CD-ROM Drive ?

anthonybasile01 · Mar 14, 2017

Well I am in the market for a new computer here and I found myself asking a question that I really thought I would never ask. Not that I did not expect the CD-ROM to ever fade out, but it just kind of crept up on me. I am not sure if they are even called CD-ROM drives anymore now that they play DVDs and all of that, but you know what I mean.

I have used a Chromebook for the last couple of years and it did not have one, and I am not sure if it is something that laptops today are coming with. I have not really started looking too much yet, but I am curious if that is a factor or not.

Is this still a factor when it comes to buying a laptop?

Ecky · Mar 14, 2017

I pulled the last CD/DVD drive out of my computers sometime around 2009, or around 8 years ago, when I discovered you could install Windows from a flash drive. For a while I kept an external (USB) drive around just in case, but I never used it and eventually gave it away. Whether or not you will use one is up to you, but for me that age has long since passed.

Plus, in a laptop, the space a disk drive takes up can easily double or triple the battery capacity.

guanyu210379 · Mar 14, 2017

I still keep 1 external BR burner combo at home, just in case.
I have 2 laptops, 2 PCs and 1 data server, but that external optical drive, I have only 1.

You do not really need an optical drive anymore these days.

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