Buying my first laptop.. always had ones from work before. Fancy a T550... but I'm confused (and probably old fashioned) in that there doesn't appear to be an optical drive option... how do you load existing software from CDs? External drive? How do you reload the OS? Or is that a real dumb question in 2015!
Grateful for any observations on making the most of modern hardware... considering I learnt my bad habbits 20+ years ago....
Thanks
Mike
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New T550 - optical drive?
New T550 - optical drive?
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MikeK
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MikeK
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Re: New T550 - optical drive?
As you suspect, you'll need an external USB optical drive. You could probably find one that is cheaper than the factory recommended one.
ref: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/ThinkPad_WE.pdf <-- Western Europe PSREF
ref: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/th ... ccessories
ref: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/ThinkPad_WE.pdf <-- Western Europe PSREF
ref: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/th ... ccessories
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Re: New T550 - optical drive?
Thanks Ray
Regards
MikeK
somebody else's T500, and my own T61, R51 & T21
MikeK
somebody else's T500, and my own T61, R51 & T21
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