What kind of specs does the DVD drive have? Is it SATA? Are there any other ports to add another drive? Can I upgrade the RAM? Can I upgrade to Win8?
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My PC came with a Sony DVD burner. It has an additional space for another player or burner. You may upgrade the RAM. You can get WIN8 if you wish,eventhough I can't see why you would want WIN8. It is designed more for tablets than PCs. I personaly don't like WIN8. It is not as excellent as WIN7 PROFESSINAL. I'm extreamly happy with my PC the way it is. It is very fast. I use it in conjuntion with my HP PAVILLION 800. It also has WIN7 PROFESSIONAL. I do video productions for my ministry. I use a HP ENVY 32 at my congregation which has WIN8 and I work it and even do video editing and still I prefer WIN7 PROFESSINAL. Past. Manuel J. Vazquez Du Val. My PC came with a Sony DVD burner. It has an additional space for another player or burner. You may upgrade the RAM. You can get WIN8 if you wish,eventhough I can't see why you would want WIN8. It is designed more for tablets than PCs. I personaly don't like WIN8. It is not as excellent as WIN7 PROFESSINAL. I'm extreamly happy with my PC the way it is. It is very fast. I use it in conjuntion with my HP PAVILLION 800. It also has WIN7 PROFESSIONAL. I do video productions for my ministry. I use a HP ENVY 32 at my congregation which has WIN8 and I work it and even do video editing and still I... » Read More My PC came with a Sony DVD burner. It has an additional space for another player or burner. You may upgrade the RAM. You can get WIN8 if you wish,eventhough I can't see why you would want WIN8. It is designed more for tablets than PCs. I personaly don't like WIN8. It is not as excellent as WIN7 PROFESSINAL. I'm extreamly happy with my PC the way it is. It is very fast. I use it in conjuntion with my HP PAVILLION 800. It also has WIN7 PROFESSIONAL. I do video productions for my ministry. I use a HP ENVY 32 at my congregation which has WIN8 and I work it and even do video editing and still I prefer WIN7 PROFESSINAL. Past. Manuel J. Vazquez Du Val. « Show Less
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All your answers can be found in the specs on this model I believe. I wanted the Windows 7 because of the ease in using this platform. However, if you look deeper into different venders offering this product you might find one with the Windows 8. As for an upgrade to that I believe you could. Contact microsoft for that answer.
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My PC came with a Sony DVD burner. It has an additional space for another player or burner. You may upgrade the RAM. You can get WIN8 if you wish,eventhough I can't see why you would want WIN8. It is designed more for tablets than PCs. I personaly don't like WIN8. It is not as excellent as WIN7 PROFESSINAL. I'm extreamly happy with my PC the way it is. It is very fast. I use it in conjuntion with my HP PAVILLION 800. It also has WIN7 PROFESSIONAL. I do video productions for my ministry. I use a HP ENVY 32 at my congregation which has WIN8 and I work it and even do video editing and still I prefer WIN7 PROFESSINAL. Past. Manuel J. Vazquez Du Val.
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You can add a usb cd/dvd drive otherwise you could replace one of the existing drives with one that you would like, but you would have to open the case and install it. I warn you that this takes some knowledge about computers and don't recommend it if you are not comfortable and familiar with the insides of computers.
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There is plenty of space for internal dvd drives. You could put several in. You can install windows without a dvd rom by downloading it. You might put a light version of Linux on your computer and use that to download windows.
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Even when this is an awesome laptop, it haven't a dvd-cd burner. (actually doesn't have an optical drive). But you can buy an external one!!!
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It's a great drive but doesn't come with software other than the built in drivers. Check if you have a media player with your os and if not (windows 8) you can download some decent free software or buy some.
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The install is very simple. Your Motherboard should have a SATA cable port (look at the instructions for your computer). Connect the SATA cable opening on the back of the DVD drive and connect it to the SATA port on your motherboard!Good Luck!
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i need some clarification or verification on this ans does have dvd drive where u can put dvd and cd thanks
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I bought one in March. Put an SSD drive in it and love it. It has NO extra software, except HP stuff and a DVD Player Ap (Cyberlink). It comes with Windows 7 loaded and working, with Windows 8 setup discs if you want to go that route, and with Windows 7 setup discs which I used to install Windows 7 on my ssd drive. (The Windows 7 discs do not have the latest drivers so you have to go to HP on line to download and install these. The hard drive comes with A Windows 7 setup partition so you can do an original install from there if you like.) David Long
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I can install Win 7 home premium 64 bit on this computer for an additional $100. You will get official Win 7 disc dvd + COA license. Configuration + drivers install included. Please email me this request when checking out on Amazon.
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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.
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No idea but Google around. I see lots of comments about SSD and RAID setups on the net. Good luck!
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Hi Are you looking for a dual boot between Debian and pfSense, or just Debian? I would have to check w/ an engineer based on your answer to insure there is enough room on the 2Gb DOM. If there is not you can upgrade the drive to a 2.5" SATA spinning or SSD.
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It came with Windows 8. I had to install 8.1. I don't know if the RAM is upgradeable, you may find out from Asus' website.
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Sorry no. It's just a standard DVDRW drive that's in-built. At least my particular model's is in-built.
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Cannot respond to the video card question but it is a fairly fast responsive laptop. It does not, however, come with a full version of office, it is a trial version. I have had to use add ins to modify windows 8 to make it more usable. There is no DVD/CD, you need an external. Only two USB, and they are close together, I need a USB extender for some plugs. Find I am accidentally hitting keys that do strange things, continually disturbing. Otherwise good solid laptop.
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No but you can add a second drive in the DVD bay using a DVD caddy. I replaced the hard drive with a 128 gig Samsung 840 Pro SSD ($114.99) for use as the boot/system/program drive, and then mounted the 500 gig drive I removed in a Universal SATA Hard Drive Caddy ($13.65) and put this in the empty DVD bay for the data drive.
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I have a 1TB drive in it currently hosting my VMware ESXi Server. And it has I believe 3 or 4 sata ports on the mother board if I remember correctly. Because I have an sata dvd drive and two hdds in it currently with one other sata port available if I remember correctly.