Dell laptop - simple question

[GFORCE100]

This maybe and probably is a very silly question though do Dell Inspiron 8000 laptops have a 1.44MB FDD drive in them? I can't seem to read this info out from the website. Anyone know?

Thanks.

 

[crab]

It comes with a removeable one.

 

[snowairg]

Yes. If you customize your own system, it will show you all the details, including "Floppy Drive: Modular Floppy Drive."

 

[GFORCE100]

Oh right so it's like in the Toshiba where you connect it like you would say a USB ZIP drive right?

 

[crab]

No, it's modular. It slides into a drive bay.

 

[snowairg]

Well, you might have the option to do that... But what I think you want to know is: yes, the floppy drive and cd drive fit in the laptop at the same time. So no cables or external things necessary.

 

[GFORCE100]

Right I understand now. The only problem here is that if I have a DVD/CD drive in bay 1 and a CD-RW in bay 2 the FDD can't be inserted into the laptop. Mind who uses a floppy disk that often these days anyway.

 

[Sugadaddy]

if you have a CDRW drive, then the floppy is kind of useless. (unless you're around computers that don't have a CDROM, but that's kind of rare these days)

If you need it, why not get the DVD/CDRW all in 1 drive ?

 

[GFORCE100]

Yes I could get a DVD/CD-RW in one but then I could not copy CD from CD and would need to cache things on the HDD first. The other thing is that the combo drive has a slower write speed than the CD-RW. So the best thing is to have a DVD/CD drive in bay 1 and a CD-RW in bay 2. Makes sense?