Large touchscreen laptop with Blu-ray drive
LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE
- Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:
$1500 - Are you open to refurbs/used?
No - How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?
Build Quality - How important is weight and thinness to you?
Not at all - Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.
17 or larger - Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.
No - If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?
No - Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?
Touchscreen and blu-ray drive - Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.
I was not able to find any laptops with a large touch-screen AND a built-in bluray drive. If anyone has any ideas, that'd be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Posted Oct 29, 2021, 3:58 AM UTC
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I am not aware of any new laptop that comes with an optical drive, let alone a Bluray drive. Disk drives are slowly becoming a thing of the past. But you get external Bluray drives easily on the market. I know Asus and LG make external Bluray drives. If you want internal bluray drives you need to build a desktop
Yea, unfortunately that seems to be the thing now. This is a laptop for my relative who needs to be able to quickly pop in various disks to show things to the clients. Having a separate external drive would be a lot of hassle and easy to loose. She already has an older Toshiba that is dying with blu-ray, so it might be possible to replace new laptop that has DVD with the older blu-ray drive.
why not use an USB instead of various disks?
Quite a few recordings from the camera footage provided by the law enforcement are on disks.
maybe they dont know how to use it?
Honestly not hard to learn. Assuming they know how to get their way around the computer.
You can get an external blu ray player.
I suggest you could rent movies from iTunes. I say iTunes specifically because it has the highest bitrate content for online streaming. On a laptop, you would'nt even notice the difference between iTunes rented movies and Bluray streaming but if you are watching on television you might notice the difference upon close inspection(although very minimal).
Lol.
I can see now that not providing more details was a mistake. This is going to be a work laptop with disk drive to be a very important feature.
In that case, you wouldn't need a bluray reader. Its unnecessary for work use.Unfortunately, you still need an external optical drive reader or a USB to stor/ read files