The use of optical drives for laptops seems to be on the wane. HP, Dell and Asus would plan to make this year a 15″notebook computers without disk drives. Previously published reports that Apple’s MacBook Pro’s without odd will be releasing.
Most ultrabooks and also many other 13,3″ or smaller notebooks with optical drives, but this year there are also several larger notebooks without a floppy disk drive, claims Digitimes. The site claims that Dell, HP and Asus 15″notebook without the odd wish to release.
The omission of the optical drive would not, at first, a lot of benefits in terms of thickness and price. Notebooks would be 1mm thinner and the production costs were in the $ 20 decrease, what little impact it would have on the final retail price.
Acer would also originally a 15″notebook without an optical drive on the market, but the Taiwanese manufacturer might finally have decided to have a 15″Timeline Ultra with odd.
The notebookmakers would allow themselves to be lead by Apple. There are already reports that the new generation MacBook Pro without optical drive. Apple would be the new Pro-line in the Air make it seem. An analyst predicts that the manufacturer is also the 17 inch Macbook Pro will disappear.