The HP Envy is a sleek-looking 17.3 inch notebook that features a built-in CD/DVD drive.

Best Intel Tiger Lake laptop: HP Laptop 17t.

Best 15-inch laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 330.

Best budget laptop: Dell Inspiron 17 3793.

There are numerous old laptops that feature an optical drive, but we’ve hunted down some of the best and fairly new options so you don’t have to compromise on any features.Īs you’d expect, all of these laptops will be eligible for a free Windows 11 upgrade this holiday season. But what if you have a large physical collection of movies or maybe handle a lot of data you need to offload onto CD drives every day? Maybe you have a use case that still requires a CD every now and then? In that case, there still are a few options on the market that continue to offer an optical drive. In fact, you hardly see any laptop manufacturer launching new products with a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive. The optical drive has become a niche feature, at the same time quite irrelevant, especially when it comes to notebook PCs.

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