| TomaTito said: The future is moving away from moving media; be it CDs, DVDs, HardDisks and into the SSD, where media will be accessed quickly via streams or downloads. |
That future is quite a long way away.
A lot of us are still on slow connection and/or bandwidth cap.
Most everyone here are actually on 60GB bandwidth cap. That's not anywhere close to feasible for doing everything on the "cloud".
At the same time, we're no where near the kind of high speed that we could do everything quickly without external storage.
However, laptop wise, mine has been going without the DVD drive for 4 years or so and I don't find the need to use it.
I only actually used the DVD drive, maybe, twice in the last 4 years on my laptop. The rest of the times, I use usb key or portable drive.
