What makes an entire industry like laptops suddenly change its mind? It’s a story with arguments coming from one side or another where in the end the builders made the most obvious decision seeing what was coming.
The CD or DVD drive of a laptop, a classic
You don’t have to be very insightful to see how the industry works today and especially to look back to see where we came from. A laptop has what is essential and necessary for the range it occupies and a CD and DVD drive has been a problem for over a decade.
The reasons are simple: obsolescence of CDs and DVDs, cooling problems of key components such as the CPU and GPU, shrinking thickness of laptops and boom in streaming.
Disuse CDs and DVDs
Not that anyone uses them today, but let’s be honest, they’re the least. Many still store everything from programs to photos or videos to music and endless data in general that they don’t want to lose, but how many times does an average user use them per year?
The CD and DVD industry is dead and BluRay is following the same path where it is only saved by games and movies as such. For this reason and being residual as such, but also due to the fact that via USB we can connect a reader for those who need it, the manufacturers have decided to do without it and the CD or DVD drive no longer makes sense in a portable computer.
refrigeration
With the previous argument in mind, it must also be said that doing without this space has improved the cooling of the TOP models or the thinnest laptops. The CPU and the GPU increase in consumption and in temperature, they are more efficient, but the escalation has been gradual and unstoppable and logically the cooling system of a laptop is expensive, requires a lot of R&D and above all it takes time square. Removing the CD or DVD drive from a laptop give that extra space which is won to achieve better temperatures.
Decreasing size and thickness of laptops
Not much to say here really. If you want a laptop with a thickness close to a centimeter or less, you just have to reduce the components to a minimum and that is precisely what has happened in this industry accompanied by what has been mentioned before. Removing the CD or DVD drive from an ultrabook laptop it’s necessaryit is impossible, not even with a SLIM drive, that you can get better thickness numbers if you add this element.
Finally, the streaming boom ended up killing almost every physical device, which we’ve all seen with netflix etc Anyone who needs a CD or DVD drive in their laptop can still have it by buying it separately, while those who don’t need it will benefit from all of the above plus a price which supposedly should be lower.
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