1 Another mass-storage option gaining in popularity is the optical drive.

2 They have built-in wireless networking, but lack an optical drive for CDs or DVDs.

3 The new MacBook Air also dispenses with an optical drive, but so did the previous MacBook Air, and indeed so do nearly all netbooks and quite a few other "thin and light" notebook PCs.

4 You can either point QEMU at your real optical drive or specify a file that contains an optical disc image, such as one you've downloaded from the Internet or created from a physical disc.

5 The two-pound device had a seven-inch screen, no optical drive or hard drive, and occupied half the space of a typical notebook computer of the day.

6 The optical drive takes the place of -hdc, so you cannot use both options simultaneously.

7 An external optical drive is an option and the notebook has a 4W SRS 2.0 sound system with a subwoofer.

8 The authors believe it was probably caused by heat emanating from the optical drive.

9 That is far more than rival consoles (the Xbox 360 starts at $300 and the Wii costs $250) and is due to the inclusion of a Blu-ray optical drive in every PS3.

10 Don't forget, the MacBook Air doesn't come with Ethernet or with an optical drive either.

11 The options for the DVD drive on my Fedora 13 system come from udev rules, and that is why there is no entry in /etc/fstab for an optical drive.

12 You can usually find the option under the 'Boot' menu, and you will need to save these changes to be able to boot from the optical drive.

13 Offsetting its sparse connectivity are genuinely useful new features including new trackpad gesture controls and the ability to wirelessly "borrow" another system's optical drive.

14 The problem is that your hard drive has a higher boot priority than your optical drive.

15 The media player of combining display and suction type optical drive is housed inside a case. Using brake mechanism pushes display and the suction type optical drive.

16 That mechanism of software distribution also makes the Air's lack of an optical drive more palatable.

17 Occasionally you will need to change the device boot priority to be able to boot a live Linux distro from your optical drive.

18 On some systems,[] you must press a function key to select the boot device or adjust a basic input/output system (BIOS) option to boot from the optical drive rather than from your hard disk.

19 They want a slim, easy-to-carry laptop and like the choice of a larger hard drive over an optical drive.

20 As a design, our view is somewhat mixed. It's actually a fairly attractive, simple notebook, but it seems unusually "fat" for a notebook that lacks an optical drive and uses a low-power processor.