The death of optical disks was carved in stone when the 2 TB SDXC standard was demonstrated two years ago.
Net books and tablets have eschewed optical drives including the vaunted blu-ray because of their low capacity, higher failure rate, and heat generation since at least as far back as 2005 when my 7” XP tablet was made.
It was inevitable that the larger machines would follow suit
Yeah. But that's because you don't need to lug the optical drive around. I have a USB Drive which reads and writes CDs and DVDs. It would be cumbersome to use the netbook for anything except the internet without occasionally hooking it up to load purchased programs.
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