Why don't laptops have CD drives anymore?

Sure, they are not very practical or useful in 2022, but they looked so kino and added some needed mass to a laptop. You can spend 10k on a laptop and it won't have a CD drive. I know that other formats exist, but I just personally think that a CD drive is a cool feature. I also know what a dongle is.

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>wants xis laptop to have more "media ass"

Because zoomers and normalfags download and stream everything from the cloud they worship.

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Zoomers truly believe that "the cloud" is a virtualized vault that has no physical form. The cloud in reality is just some HDDs apart of some obese man's server in a basement. God help zoomers if the internet goes out.

>Why don't laptops have CD drives anymore?
>they are not very practical or useful
there is your answer

But they look cool and add character to the laptop.

I've only used an optical drive 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years.
I've never even touched cloud and paid streaming, however since 2010 I've only been using USB thumb drives and portable HDDs to backup and move data around. If you still need to use an optical drive a few times per year just buy an USB model

But I agree with OP, optical drives on laptops are cool even if not very useful nowadays. They still should at least be offered as an option on workstation class laptops.

they add weight to the laptop. seriously how often are you gonna be lugging around CDs?

One solution could be removable drives.
Back in the 1990s modular laptops were very common. You could replace the CD drive with a floppy drive, a second battery to increase autonomy, or just leave the port empty to decrease weight.