This format is quickly becoming obsolete and replaced with digital everything. With digital downloads, digital software, cloud storage, and even subscription-based digital software access, there’s no longer a real need for physical media- specifically CD or DVDs. Many manufacturers for laptops such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and ASUS have all abandoned adding a built-in optical drive for their laptops.
Want a Chromebook with a CD/DVD drive? Chromebooks don’t have optical disc drives- this means no CD/DVDs can be inserted.Īs you probably know, Chromebooks don’t have optical drives. But some of us have a collection or store things on physical medium. CD/DVD drives are quickly becoming obsolete. This tutorial has been updated for 2023 based on user feedback. Anyone can do it.īy the end of it, you’ll be able to play music CDs, DVD movies, rip music, burn CDs, and do whatever else you want on one of the most popular storage mediums on the planet- the optical disc! The whole process is pretty easy and should take less than an hour to set up. In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to get your Chromebook to connect to an external CD/DVD player. So, you want to connect your Chromebook to an external CD or DVD drive.
