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If you’re thinking about buying an ultraportable… Ultra Thin Laptop,  then the chances are you’ve come across a few models that don’t come with any optical drives included. On first glance, a laptop with no DVD drive may seem extremely limiting, but the truth is that there are many ways around it. Keep reading to find out more.

How To Get By Without An Internal Disc Drive

Gamers may be wary of buying a Ultra Thin Laptop  with no optical drive for the simple fact that most games not only need to be installed from a disc, but they also require the disc to be inserted before they can be played. Have you checked to see whether there are any online versions of your game available? Services like Steam are all based on digital downloads, and most of the top titles are now being released in download-only format.

If you need to install software that isn’t available online, then you can also take advantage of other computers in your home network. For example, Apple’s Macbook Air comes with a feature that easily lets you access the optical drives of other Macs in your household as and when you need to. This means you’re limited to only using the drive when you’re at home, but it’s still a useful solution.

The other option is to buy an external DVD drive that plugs into your Ultra Thin Laptop  via USB. These don’t require discs themselves to install and, once plugged in you’ll be able to watch DVDs, burn CDs or do anything else you normally would with a disc drive. These external options are very inexpensive, especially in proportion to the cost of an ultraportable laptop in the first place.

Should You Buy A Computer Without An Optical Drive?

As you can see, there are many ways to get around the issue of not having an optical drive, even if you do find that you need one at some point. However, the choice of whether to buy a laptop without a drive ultimately comes down to the way you will use it. If it’s going to be your main computer, do you need to read CDs and DVDs? If it’s not going to be your main computer, will you be happy using a different computer whenever you do need to read discs?

The truth is that technology is shifting towards completely digital media. Although a Ultra Thin Laptop  doesn’t come with an optical drive as a space-saving measure, even desktop computers are now coming without optical drives purely because fewer and fewer of us are actually using them on a day to day basis.