Does it come with an optical CD/DVD drive? What is the battery life like?
1984041
No this model does not come with an optical drive. This has a very good battery life. The ones that I have tested well over 4 hours and more depending on what was being used.
1915280
No unfortunately it doesn't have a DVD/CD drive. You have to buy it separately.
512616
It does not have a DVD Drive... thanks good! that made it more light and save battery! :D
258729
Nope there's no optical drive. That's why I had to buy a seperate external optical drive
425241
No CD drive, but I bought an optical drive that can play DVD's and plugs into one of the USB ports from Amazon for about $20 -$25. Works fine! I read all the reviews for the Acer. It has exceeded my expectations in all regards but one. Periodically it makes a loud buzzing sound and the only thing I can do is shut it down and reboot. Never been any other repercussions from it though.
1391040
You will have to purchase the CD/DVD drive separately. The product does not come with a CD/DVD drive installed.
137245
No I don't believe it comes with optical drive. Thank you for your interest.
1355296
No CD/DVD Drive is included in this laptop. An external drive can be purchased and used through a USB connection. Hope this helps
2094296
It doesn't come with an optical drive, but there are slots for optical drives behind the front cover that swings open.
413459
No it does not have an optical drive (DVD/CD drive). I have a desktop Win 8 machine in my home office. I shared the optical drive on the desktop and was easily able to install/rip software/music from that optical drive onto this Asus.
1331637
No, it does not have a CD/DVD drive installed. It can work with a portable USB drive in a very limited way to read CD and DVD disks but cannot write to them.
1795495
Yes it does have a dvd/cd drive. I am assuming that it can burn cd/ dvds. Id be very surprised if it couldn't. I bought the computer for my dad so i've only used it a few times while setting things up for him. But its a nice computer.
824282
No it does not have a CD drive but I have a separate CD/Dvd drive that connects via usb and can read any cd or burn with that device by usb
245181
NO, it does not come with any optical drive. I bought an external USB optical drive as an add on.
830548
No DVD/CD drive. Should work well as a word processor. I run Media Center on it. Stream video from network attached storage and Netflicks with no performance issues.
410662
My HP Envy does not have an optical DVD drive. However, I purchased an external one from Amazon for around $50. It works great using a USB port, and I like that the laptop's weight is not increased by having one onboard.
939441
A CD/DVD drive is not included. You can plug in an external drive if needed. A good example is here: ASUS External Slim 8X DVD-RW Stylish Cut Design Optical Drive SDRW-08D2S-U/BLK/G/AS .Most PCs don't come with a good webcam+ microphone but this Vizio does. So, maybe you can justify spending $25 or $30 for an external DVD/CD drive IF you really need one!