Whither the Portable Optical Drive?

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, 2011 @11:36AM from the do-you-stream-or-spin dept.

"The MacBook Air and the Ultrabook come without a piece of hardware that's been a mainstay in laptops for a long time — the optical drive," says a piece at CNET. "Maybe because they really aren't that necessary anymore." I would have thought otherwise a few years ago, but traveling in the meantime with a small netbook was certainly handy. Since that machine died, I think I've used the optical drive in its low-end laptop successor a grand total of once, which was to test its wireless compatibility with a Live CD Linux distro.

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Re:Speak for yourself by Stormwatch · 2011-11-19 12:22 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Games these days are being purchased more and more on Steam, Origin, and the likes.
Which I refuse to ever do. If it doesn't come DRM-free, it will come from TPB!

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Re:Speak for yourself by smash · 2011-11-19 14:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Because if course all optical media is and always has been DRM free.
Idiot.

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