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optical drive
noun
A drive that reads optical media.
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It also has a built-in optical drive — something all Airs lack (Apple sells an external optical drive for $79).
The GO-coated DVD disc was then inserted into the DVD optical drive for laser patterning.
They have built-in wireless networking, but lack an optical drive for CDs or DVDs.
Part of the way Razer kept it thin was by omitting an optical drive.
Unlike the Xbox One S and doubtless the Xbox Project Scorpio, the optical drive has no support for UHD Blu-ray discs.
And like the netbook it had no optical drive, and limited storage, meaning that cloud services were key.
Most desktop PCs come with a built-in DVD optical drive that will also read and write CDs.
But the optical drive?
No optical drive?
– No optical drive.
That's an optical drive.
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