hunterjwizzard
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No, brand new optical drives in the SATA variety are still being actively manufactured for a variety of niche roles. You don't find a pre-fab PC with an optical drive at costco, but the technology isn't going away soon.Supplies will eventually run out since new machines are ditching the drives or using laptop varieties.
Yep. Freakin hate it but not a lot of options.That photo is a good illustration of why most modern PCs are black.
At least the gray HP drive looks slightly closer to its original color... Unless it wasn't gray to begin with!That photo is a good illustration of why most modern PCs are black.
They went on to 56x.Ah yes the fabled 52Xmax company...they were everywhere wonder what happend to them
I would so much rather it had been this way.I never understood why mass-storage peripherals weren't color-coded. Say, blue for CD, green for DVD, yellow for floppy, etc. Why the need for monochrome boxes?
Who's gonna see, when you've got the box on the floor sucking up dust?Because for the longest time computers were meant to be in offices and Crayola crayon colors would have been frowned upon there.