Should OEMs remove the floppy from their standard list of parts on new machines now?

[MadRat]

Lets have a simple poll.

 

[DanFungus]

I voted no, as in they probably won't remove it for a while, because the people that don't want to use their floppies (to not put them in at all) are most likely the ones that build their own computers...just a guess, but I think it's about right...

 

[vegetation]

It probably costs them $5 or less to stick in a floppy, so I say no.

 

[SOSTrooper]

Most of us are computer elitists. So we dont use floppies. But we only represent less than 1% of the world's computer users. So in the rest of the 99%, 90% of them are n00bs, and they use floppies. So no, they shouldnt remove floppy drivs. Because then chaos will fall upon all n00bs.

 

[WannaZO6]

Originally posted by: SOSTrooper
Most of us are computer elitists. So we dont use floppies. But we only represent less than 1% of the world's computer users. So in the rest of the 99%, 90% of them are n00bs, and they use floppies. So no, they shouldnt remove floppy drivs. Because then chaos will fall upon all n00bs.

Well stated, many of the people at my school and work still use floppies. I have moved on to a USB pen drive, but floppies are still handy sometimes.

 

[SilentRunning]

I said no.


But some people on this forum are telling me that only 0.99999... of my vote counts

 

[compudog]

I consider myself to be a computer elitist (I have built hundreds of PCs for myself and for others) and I still use a floppy. The USB thumb/pen devices are great, and I will use them whenever possible, but I still run into some PCs where there are no USB ports and I have to get files into them some way. I think, for at least another year or so, floppies will still be used. I'll not be sad to see them go, but I think we still need them around.

 

[Tab]

I hope USB Flash Pens will become more popular. Removing the floppy drive wouldn't be that smart, considering the amount of noobs.

 

[magomago]

no.

Most people use floppies and while I don't just because I use Incd instead, a lot of people do....especially at my school

 

[Evadman]

Long live the floppy!

 

[SOSTrooper]

I think Floppy will live longer than all Iomega products combined.

 

[grrl]

I voted no. Too many people including myself still use them. Even so, I agree with Tabb, I hope USB Flash Pens or a similar replacement becomes more popular.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: SOSTrooper
I think Floppy will live longer than all Iomega products combined.

that's only because most of Iomegas products (Zip drives in mind) are dead already! haH!

(joke only understood if you've seen/heard about the Click of Doom with Zip drives...saw it happen once to someone else...funniest 5 minutes of my life )

 

[gf4200isdabest]

Welcome to 2003!! they already have. Go to your local circuit city and notice that many of the computers there won't have floppy drives...

 

[chizow]

Floppies will be necessary as long as OS hardware driver (SCSI, RAID) and BIOS flashes require floppy-based updates. That's all I use floppies for.

Chiz

 

[CubicZirconia]

No way. I'm sure the majority of school-age kids still need a floppy drive for saving word documents. I think it will be quite awhile before the floppy is really dead.

 

[Ryan]

Floppy drives can be removed from Gateway's computers

 

[MedicBob]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Long live the floppy!

 

[Boogak]

Should OEMs remove the floppy from their standard list of parts on new machines now?

Only if they want to go out of business.

 

[KhoiFather]

Seriously, you guys gotta understand that floppy drives will always be around, and you know why? SCHOOLS!!!! Students use floppy drives to save and store their documents that they write up from home or in school. What do you expect them to do? Burn the file into a CD and waste a whole CD or send it to their emails and then they can go online to save their document or files on the computer? Hell no, by doing the email thing will take way longer then just popping in the floppy drive and opening up the document.

Unless schools become richer or something and decide to use something more better, floppy will be long gone. Until then, long live the floppy drive!

 

[Darien]

I still use a floppy drive...handy when transfering small things around.



I'm not willing to use a CD, because that's a heck lot of potential space gone

 

[hans007]

my new laptop doesnt have a floppy.



if i was buying a new floppy, and the OEM would allow me the option of say getting a 16mb usb keychain, instead of the floppy i'd take the keychain. hell if they'd give me $5 i'd do it too.


i mean they still make computers with ball mice , and floppies. i'd trade the floppy away any day , to just have optical on all mice.

a floppy bulk costs about $5 from what i remember of OEM large quantity prices. now a company like hp/compaq sells say a jhalf a million computers a month. they dont want to risk customers not liking it yet, but i suppose when the whole industry decides its time to get rid of floppies they'll get rid of them and save their 2.5 million a month and sellthe computers for the same price, or will standard optical mice or standard burners / dvds.


i mean some computers still come with cdrom drives too, and a dvd drive costs about $5 more a cdrom, $10 more for a cdrw. i'd rather have any of those things than a floppy no a low end box.

 

[ShowdOWN]

from time to time, im sure that even the most savvy computer users still use floppies. including me.

 

[yg17]

until some better, affordable removable technology comes around, no.

Most of us here dont use floppies the way we did before CD burners. But occasionally, they still have to be used for BIOS upgrades and boot disks if something goes wrong.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: yg17
until some better, affordable removable technology comes around, no.

Most of us here dont use floppies the way we did before CD burners. But occasionally, they still have to be used for BIOS upgrades and boot disks if something goes wrong.

i use boot cdroms for bios updgrades.


i think every computer should come with a cdrw though. the cost of the floppy offsets half the additional cost of a burner.