Thread: Optical drives

A number of products based on Atom miss out on an optical drive and there is more than one reason for this phenomenon. First, the devices are designed to deliver optimum battery performance and second is their form factor. Both require the device to have as less hardware as possible. If an optical drive is essen¬tial then an external DVD-RW drive can be connected to the computer through a USB port and would cost you an extra 2k - 5k.