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I overheard a lady complaining to Best Buy sales associate that the new Macbook should have a built in DVD drive. The Best Buy sales said you can buy an external one that they sell. She said don't want to have to lug it around, want one built in. Do you have one that's built in. The sales guy said she will have to buy a Windows laptop but she insists that her daughter gets a Macbook and needs one with a DVD drive.
What do you folks think about optical drives for a laptop? Necessity or external add-on?
I overheard a lady complaining to Best Buy sales associate that the new Macbook should have a built in DVD drive. The Best Buy sales said you can buy an external one that they sell. She said don't want to have to lug it around, want one built in. Do you have one that's built in. The sales guy said she will have to buy a Windows laptop but she insists that her daughter gets a Macbook and needs one with a DVD drive.
What do you folks think about optical drives for a laptop? Necessity or external add-on?
It seems that for the sake of compactness computer manufacturers are not providing optical drives. The 2015 MacBook Air does not have an optical drive, and the internal storage is a flash drive. The days where a platter-type hard drive inside the laptop are pretty much gone, and so optical drives. While I prefer an internal optical drive, nowadays external drives are quite cheap, and you can use them across computer platforms. Most of the newer ones are USB-3/Wi-Fi.
The lady may have to buy a MacBook for her daughter, since a lot college kids (if she is one) are dead-set on Mac laptops. It will be expensive, regardless, but I would buy directly from Apple and get an educational discount (around $50.00) for a macBook Air, and turn that money toward 8GB of RAM instead of 4.
The Apple Superdrive (optical) costs a little too much (79.00), but it is very small. But I saw same optical drives USB-3 at Amazon that are quite small, and cheaper (from $30.00 to perhaps $60.00).
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A friend just bought a MacBook Air for his wife (Christmas), and I was surprised of how thin it is, even next to the iPad Air. Closed it's a little over 1/2" along the back, which is the thickest part. The front edge is quite thin.
I have external disk drives but rarely use them.
Both for the mac air and the little Acer .
Having the drive at home is all that's really needed, unless your using your computer to watch movies.
Now if you've installed parallel and windows 7 on your mac, then having the disk drive is handy for down loading programs .
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