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Re: Why one needs a dVD drive in his laptop after all, haha.

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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:37:52 +0000
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by: wasbit - Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:37 UTC

On 26/01/2024 21:11, Brian Gregory wrote:
> On 24/01/2024 16:19, micky wrote:
>> People laughed at me when I said I wanted a desktop and a laptop with a
>> DVD drive. No one uses those anymore, they taunted me.
>
> Not me.
>
> The last PC I built I deliberately looked for a case with positions for
> optical drives. It was fairly difficult to find one.
>
> As to whether I really needed one. It is debatable. I could manage with
> an external USB drive but it'd be annoying and an extra expense. (The
> drives I used were out of my old PC)
>
> On the other hand a USB DVD drive suitable for installing software is
> going to be relatively cheap compared with the blu-ray writer drives I
> like to have.
>

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