On Jan 17, 2008 11:24 AM, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:23:07AM +0000, George Prowse wrote:<br>> Alan Pope wrote:<br>> >On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:59:23AM +0000, George Prowse wrote:<br>> >>Who would buy one without a CD/DVD player? Weird...
<br>> >><br>> ><br>> >Me. My eee has no optical drive and I dont miss it.<br>><br>> Are you trying to tell me you have never wanted to use something that is<br>> on CD since getting it?<br>>
<br><br></div>I don't recall needing a CD ROM drive since owning it, no.<br><br>I have reinstalled the OS too which I did from a USB stick.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Ditto that. Haven't needed one either. And on my Sony mini laptop I have only used the external DVD drive about 5 times, since owning the laptop for 5 years. With wireless, wired network and large USB drives I have easier ways of getting stuff on it. And once the major applications are installed I don't change it much, anything new added is normally a download anyway.
<br><br>If we are being 'purest' and using FLOSS applications they are all downloads anyway :-)<br><br>Colin<br>