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The final nail in the coffin was the lack of a built-in optical drive.
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The typical standards of built-in optical drive, HP QuickPlay, 6-in-1 card reader and 6-cell batter round out the capable, but lower-end laptop.
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Another impressive feature is the unit's reported ability to play back DVDs via the built-in optical drive (while in park, obviously), or you can hookup the forthcoming Wii or PlayStation 3 to the dual video inputs fpr keeping you and your co-riders entertained should you hit a traffic jam (or LA stoplight).
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It's considerably heftier than the 13- and 14-inch models, but it does squeeze in an optical drive.
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According to the report, Sony toyed with the idea of dropping the optical drive in favor or making games for the machine download-only over the internet.
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Adams said he left NeXT after disagreeing with Jobs about the use of the optical drive in the NeXT workstation, which he felt would be too slow.
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By including a Blu-ray optical drive in the PlayStation 3, it hopes to promote its own standard for the next generation of DVDs, and the console as a device for playing them.
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This, and the optical drive, will be the real performance bottlenecks in the system and in the PC you could theoretically build to compare it with.
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Apple's 3-pound MacBook Air, the 2.4-pound Toshiba includes the optical drive that the MacBook Air lacks while cramming in 128 gigabytes worth of storage, thanks to the world's largest capacity flash memory-based hard drive.
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In addition, the notebook trio offers a versatile modular bay allowing users to remove the optical drive to lighten the load when travelling or to install a second battery, which along with the high-capacity standard battery provides up to 15.5 hours(1) of operation.
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