Optical disc drives aren't dead

There's something about obviated technology that just makes it endearing to me. Take the once ubiquitous CD drive of laptops and desktops of yore (yore being roughly a decade ago). It has been all but deprecated out of existence by Apple's MacBook Air and the legion of PC clones that followed in its wake. Almost no one bothers trying to fit a big mechanical repository for optical media into modern laptops anymore — but business users apparently still value the option.

Acer's new business laptops for Computex are exactly the sort of forgettable, unappealing, black functionaries that you'd expect business PC buyers from 2004 to be interested in. Coming in 14- and 15.6-inch varieties, the Travelmate P2 has a "fine linen textile" pattern on...

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