Comments on: Samsung’s 360-degree turnaround http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/23/samsungs-360-degree-turnaround/ Blogging in the real world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:02:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul Milligan http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/23/samsungs-360-degree-turnaround/comment-page-1/#comment-22164 Paul Milligan Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:10:30 +0000 http://www3.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=4903#comment-22164 I thoroughly agree that a CD/DVD drive is not essential for a notebook. I have an external 150Gb drive (small by today's standards) loaded with ISO images of all the software I use, plus lots of installers for all the common non-CD/DVD apps. If I get stuck I download anything else over broadband. I simply see no need for a CD/DVD drive on a portable unless you are inclined to use it as a media centre. I thoroughly agree that a CD/DVD drive is not essential for a notebook. I have an external 150Gb drive (small by today’s standards) loaded with ISO images of all the software I use, plus lots of installers for all the common non-CD/DVD apps. If I get stuck I download anything else over broadband. I simply see no need for a CD/DVD drive on a portable unless you are inclined to use it as a media centre.

]]> By: David Wright http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/23/samsungs-360-degree-turnaround/comment-page-1/#comment-22123 David Wright Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:13:26 +0000 http://www3.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=4903#comment-22123 It depends... A lot of the time, when I am staying away from home, I take a bunch of DVDs with me, so the drive would be pretty important; although it could stay in the hotel room, to be connected up when I want to watch a film and the light, compact machine taken into the office... That said, I'd be looking for a 17" display, with a 1920x1200 resolution, so the addition of a DVD drive on that size of machine is pretty much irrelevant... It depends… A lot of the time, when I am staying away from home, I take a bunch of DVDs with me, so the drive would be pretty important; although it could stay in the hotel room, to be connected up when I want to watch a film and the light, compact machine taken into the office…

That said, I’d be looking for a 17″ display, with a 1920×1200 resolution, so the addition of a DVD drive on that size of machine is pretty much irrelevant…

]]> By: Ian JEn http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/23/samsungs-360-degree-turnaround/comment-page-1/#comment-22122 Ian JEn Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:12:49 +0000 http://www3.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=4903#comment-22122 Yes absoultly correct, Yes absoultly correct,

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