How important is an optical drive to you?

[Krane]

A lot of people say that they no longer use an optical drive and Apple no longer include them in it's 2012 RMBP. Are optical drives in a notebook important to you?





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[tijo]

I though there was a poll about that some time ago, but anyways, here goes: not really important, i still happen to need one from time to time, but an external would be alright for the job.

[Krane]

I though there was a poll about that some time ago

You are correct. There was one last year. But Apple hadn't dropped theirs OD yet. I though it was on another site.

EDIT: Okay, great then.

[tijo]

Well, since it's been a year, i don't see a reason to delete it. It would be interesting to see if things changed since then and your poll is much more detailed. I honestly thought that we had a poll on that more recently, but i guess i was wrong.

[tommytomatoe]

I don't remember the last time I used a cd/dvd disk on my computer. My wife plays the Sims 3 on our iMac, but otherwise we don't use cd/dvd anymore. I don't have an optical drive in my Clevo.

Short: not important.

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[ViciousXUSMC]

It's important to me as in when I need one I NEED one, but I do not often need one.

So I would be more than happy to give up the optical drive on a laptop for a SSD or HDD as long as said laptop was nice enough to include an external usb optical drive.

[Commander Wolf]

What is an optical drive?

[tijo]

It's important to me as in when I need one I NEED one, but I do not often need one.

Kind of the same thing for me, when i need the optical it's either because i need to access something that is on disc only or because i need to burn something to disc and it HAS to be on a disc.

[compuNaN]

Some things are still a bit difficult, most notably installing an OS for the first time. You'll have to make an installer USB on another computer. Renting high quality movies is next to impossible too.

[Tsunade_Hime]

Optical drives are such a waste of space in a laptop, why we haven't dropped the optical drive for something like a bay battery really baffles me or just overall make the chassis slimmer. I keep a Samsung USB optical drive just for emergencies but all the computers I have now support booting from USB so no need for Windows 7 discs anymore.