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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Jan 04, 2014

New computer has no optical drive, how to load Office 2003

Buying the wife a new laptop coming in a couple of weeks. Seems the newest ones don't have an optical drive. She uses Office 2003 for a few things and would like to have it on her new computer. Not wo...
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Simplygib
Explorer
Jan 05, 2014
MitchF150 wrote:
What laptop does not come standard with a writeable DVD drive??


Lots of them. It's getting more and more common these days, although plenty are still available with optical drives - Blu Ray or otherwise.

I second (third, forth?) the motion for an external USB drive. It will come in handy from time to time.

Plenty to choose from here from about 15 bucks on up. Thirty bucks gets one with lots of good reviews.

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