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nin10do said:i thought they would have died out by now. i doubt blue ray is going to be big on laptops. so why keep putting dvd drives in new laptops?
Blu-Ray drives are barely common in PCs, and Laptops always lag behind what the PC can do (in almost every case). Flash drives still cost more then your average DVD (even the RWs) and SSDs are even more expensive. If you consider carrying a regular hard drive around, you're a bit silly (one drop and boom! all your stuff is gone). DVDs, while a bit bigger, are much more portable while still keeping durability if you treat them right (i.e. keep them in a case, don't fling them around the room like frisbees). Plus, chances are, whatever you want to store on DVDs probably isn't as big as a DVD-ROM anyway, so getting an even bigger storage solution is overkill.
Plus, DVDs can be used in DVD players, which are a lot more common then Home Theatre PCs