When Did You Last Use Your CD-ROM?
I was fixing my pc yesterday and couldn’t reformat because my xp installer was being ejected every 30 seconds. Since 1) most of my files can be accessed through the network, 2) i can share my laptop’s optical drive through the network, 3) i can create and use cd images and 4) i have lots of hard drive space, i haven’t bothered replacing it.
Unfortunately, I needed a real and physical optical drive yesterday to reinstall xp on my desktop. If it weren’t for the hot weather, i would have went to gilmore and got me a new pc… i mean, optical drive.
So, i played around with a 1gb CF card and created a bootable XPSP2 CF installer. 1 morning musume concert watched from my laptop later, my desktop was reformatted and loaded with all my necessary work applications.
File backups aside, i don’t think i’ll be using an optical drive anytime soon. Now, eee and air’s lack of optical drive makes sense. Don’t you think?