Dell to Make Floppy Disk Drives Optional

[Eug]

Originally posted by: paralazarguer

I want to just be able to copy-and-paste files straight to CD(or other) as if it were a giant-storage-high-speed floppy disk.

Welcome to the wonderful world of windows XP. Insert blank Cd or CDRW. Go to my comptuer and drag files into cd drive with blank disc. Hit the burn button. Just to make it even more idiot proof, there's even a dialogue box that comes up and asks you what you want to do with that blank disc you just put in there...

This is still not the same functionality as with floppy, either with Win XP or Mac OS X.

Technologies that are however, include Zip and DVD-RAM.

 

[paralazarguer]

Technologies that are however, include Zip and DVD-RAM.

And CD-RW in the sense that it allows nearly unlimited re-writes and individual removal and adition of files and booting from the disc. Same thing.

 

[bluemax]

You just don't get to USE the files you drag to the disc until you hit a BURN button and sit twiddling your thumbs until it's finished.
And CDRW discs are still quite slow. Compare that to ZIP or SuperDisk? No way.

I'm still waiting for THE floppy replacement. CD-R and floppy will still remain seperate (but nice) entities until such time.

 

[lorlabnew]

While the floppy isn't really necessary, I still feel better to have them in my machines, if only for redundancy reason... they cost near to nothing, and give me flexibility in case of troubleshooting...

If IDE controller for instance would be malfunctioning, I still can use floppy to boot and run some diagnostics. And not every PC has CDRW. But understand that Dell saves FDD & cable costs by ommiting them in their future systems (while they can actually charge you extra $ for what used to be standard), so their decision makes sense from their particular point of view. The ultra-cheap $200 Microtel PC's with Lindows don't have FDD neither...

dave

 

[mojaam]

Originally posted by: paralazarguer

I want to just be able to copy-and-paste files straight to CD(or other) as if it were a giant-storage-high-speed floppy disk.

Welcome to the wonderful world of windows XP. Insert blank Cd or CDRW. Go to my comptuer and drag files into cd drive with blank disc. Hit the burn button. Just to make it even more idiot proof, there's even a dialogue box that comes up and asks you what you want to do with that blank disc you just put in there...

Wow, cool. I just found this out. Why? Cus I have no cdrw .