Do you still have and/or use an Optical (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) Drive on your compute

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   Tonyx35posted 11 years ago

   Do you still have and/or use an Optical (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) Drive on your computer?
   
   I was just wondering how many of us here still have or use a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive in their computers? One of the computing magazines I read, recently built a "Dream Machine" and no longer included an Optical Drive in it. You've also got "Ultrabooks" and the Macbook Air that no longer have them either.
   
   I still continue to  use them, as I buy Audio CDs from time to time, have older  PC games and other software on discs.

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   duffsmomposted 11 years ago

   My optical drive in my iMac quit so I bought an add on which works fine.  Yes, I would still use the drive. I can't imagine not having one.

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      Tonyx35posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Well it's good to know that those external add-on drives work with both Windows and Mac OS. Thanks for the response.

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   Daemonkinposted 11 years ago

   Not a dedicated one, no. I have a USB powered external that does what I need.

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      Tonyx35posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Chalk another one for an External Drive. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

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   RetroBrothersposted 11 years ago

   Yes - I still use a CDRW and DVD/RW (built in)
   
   I don't think Optical Drives are retro just yet!

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      Tonyx35posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Same here, Adding to the details above. From time to time I   make (all-regions)  DVD-video discs out of family videos. Thanks for the response.

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   Marc Rohdeposted 11 years ago

   I actually pulled the optical drive out of my laptop (for work) and replaced it with a second hard drive.  I don't think I ever used the optical drive since most software is downloadable.
   
   I do have one in my desktop at home since it came installed but I don't think I have ever used it.

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      Tonyx35posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That's very true, current Popular software can be  in direct download for retail box form. Never really thought of doing that with a laptop/notebook, interesting idea.

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   Simon Lamposted 11 years ago

   I use my DVD/RW on my MacBook for watching DVDs, loading music from CDs onto my iTunes and sometimes for saving data files like movies, music or word documents.

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