Compact Discs (and its more advanced cousin, the DVD) at one time where the technology of the future, and now they’re beginning to look archaic. Now that you can buy thumb drives with more memory than a standard DVD there doesn’t seem to be much more point to them.
I'd have to agree that DVDs are getting to be more and more anachronistic for laptops.When you consider the added weight, the extra heat they generate, and the sheer size of the things, it seems that dropping them fom laptops would make a bit of sense.
Personally, I still like DVDs for archival storage, considering how cheap the are in bulk, but I could easily see that change in the not too terribly distant future. One thing I dislike about memor cards these days, is that they have gotten too darn small to label! How the hack can you write something meaningful on a MicroSD card?