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Gaming Laptop Has No DVD Drive
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renegadefm said:callum5 said:This Asus drive from amazon looks like a good choice with USB 3 support, includes two free M-Discs (good for long term data archives - rated to last 1,000 years), a year free of cloud storage and is well reviewed
amazon.co.uk/dp/B01878ZQ8W/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_trftEbHFFD7TXAt a decent price of £26.99
I'm still a bit puzzled why they are phased out in modern laptops though. Particularly gaming laptops.
Interesting they produce blank media to last a 1000 years when will we still have the drives to use them a 1000 years from now?2 -
renegadefm said:callum5 said:This Asus drive from amazon looks like a good choice with USB 3 support, includes two free M-Discs (good for long term data archives - rated to last 1,000 years), a year free of cloud storage and is well reviewed
amazon.co.uk/dp/B01878ZQ8W/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_trftEbHFFD7TXAt a decent price of £26.99
I'm still a bit puzzled why they are phased out in modern laptops though. Particularly gaming laptops.
Interesting they produce blank media to last a 1000 years when will we still have the drives to use them a 1000 years from now?
From a technical point of view, as well as the size of the drive it's an energy hog to run compared to the SSD or HDD, and I cannot remember the last PC game I saw that used the optical disc for anything other than installation as the optical drives are massively slower than the internal drives. I've also noticed in the past that laptop optical drives are often far shorter lived than normal PC optical drives, or even external ones.
As for optical discs still being produced, it's because they still have a use, for cheap and easy to use backups or distribution of files you can't really beat a DVDR (especially if you don't want to send it via the internet), it's just that for distribution of games it's no longer practical/particularly useful given the size of the modern games (50gb+ is common), and the way that it takes several weeks/months to replicate and distribute games/films to retail whilst the production of a game might be ongoing until the day it launches (hence the huge patches you see on console games that are released on disc).0 -
renegadefm said:@forgotmyname
Thanks for that.
It just seems odd why a gaming laptop of all things doesnt come with built in DVD rom doesnt it? Its not even that slim so odd why its left out.
Is this the future dvd less games?
The amount of people that have PC collections (how many new games can you even get on disc anymore on PC?! Most 'physical' copies now just have steam codes inside) on disc will be so incredibly low, so the market isn't really there for disc drives in gaming laptops. You can definitely still find gaming latops that have them, you just can't assume that they will have them.0 -
If a game needs the DVD plugged in to be able to start ... find a hack - it almost certainly exists.0
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renegadefm said:callum5 said:This Asus drive from amazon looks like a good choice with USB 3 support, includes two free M-Discs (good for long term data archives - rated to last 1,000 years), a year free of cloud storage and is well reviewed
amazon.co.uk/dp/B01878ZQ8W/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_trftEbHFFD7TXAt a decent price of £26.99
I'm still a bit puzzled why they are phased out in modern laptops though. Particularly gaming laptops.
Interesting they produce blank media to last a 1000 years when will we still have the drives to use them a 1000 years from now?
Also when you look at the size of modern PC games then most won't even fit onto a DVD; the latest Call of Duty Modern Warfare would take up the space of over 30 DVD's not including the massive updates it has had recently. It must have been quite a few years ago that PC games were last being sold on DVD's in shops.
Also to get around the issue of requiring the discs go to the website "Gamecopyworld" and you will be able to download files to allow the games to launch without the discs. It is a bit legally questionable because you could use it to play games you don't own but if he has the discs then it's perfectly fine.1 -
Because for well over a decade and more nobody uses physical discs for PC gaming....
And consoles are going the same way.0 -
I got COD4: MW on DVD several years back. When I refreshed my laptop (fitted an SSD, moved the old HDD into a cradle slotted into the DVD place) I got a USB-SATA lead to plug in the DVD from the laptop to be able to reinstall the game. I only connect the DVD on the very rare times that I need it.0
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flashg67 said:renegadefm said:callum5 said:This Asus drive from amazon looks like a good choice with USB 3 support, includes two free M-Discs (good for long term data archives - rated to last 1,000 years), a year free of cloud storage and is well reviewed
amazon.co.uk/dp/B01878ZQ8W/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_trftEbHFFD7TXAt a decent price of £26.99
I'm still a bit puzzled why they are phased out in modern laptops though. Particularly gaming laptops.
Interesting they produce blank media to last a 1000 years when will we still have the drives to use them a 1000 years from now?
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Not fitted a DVD drive to my computers for about 5 years. And built for others in the past
2 years or so.
One built recently for someone was an exception and the case actually cost more for the
one with the DVD drive bay. They specified requiring a DVD drive as they play games not
on steam or that cannot be downloaded.
Steam and Rockstar Launcher stores my massive collection of games (well 5ish games)
Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...0 -
renegadefm said:Neil_Jones said:But anyway, external drives are available and do exactly the same job.
The way I look at it, your paying close to a grand for a gaming laptop, you'd expect the manufacturer to honour the customer with hundreds of pounds worth of gaming discs and install a disc drive so they can use them comfortably, and not have to carry around extra devices.0
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