Many are now simply flat and the DVD and CD drive are missing. But I still need something like that. Are DVD and CD already out?
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Out or out of date yes. I haven't used CDs DVDs for years.
But if you still need them, there are external drives anyway.
Yes, they are hardly used anymore. Programs that were previously installed on CD / DVD can now be downloaded completely.
And a USB stick is usually used for data exchange instead of burning a CD / DVD with the data.
But since I also often need a DVD drive, I use an external one, which I connect via USB.
Yes are already so out. What do you still need CDs for these days? There are actually better alternatives for almost everything.
If you still need it, you can buy an external drive and connect it if necessary.
CDs, DVDs and BDs have become obsolete for computers in the broadest sense.
USB sticks achieve higher storage capacities with versatile handling. Internet connections have become drastically faster in the last 10 years and can be seen as the standard in households. Increasingly more software is only sold online anyway.
With the devices, the desire for high mobility and space-saving devices is increasing. And as an alternative, you can still buy an external drive for a few euro.
Even on my desktop computer, I finally removed the DVD drive three years ago. The fact that I still had a CD or DVD on hand happened every few months and was then mostly just a film. You could also play it on a DVD player or another widely used console.
So yes, from a technical point of view, drives are often an unnecessary luxury nowadays and also require a lot of space. Notebooks are still produced with it, but more in the business area and less in the broad range of products. In this case, plan to spend 20 euro, get an external drive that is plugged into a USB port and it is good.