They weren't still selling it in 2024, the "obsolete" designation means they stopped selling it 7 years ago. I don't buy many movies, just ones I want to watch

They weren't still selling it in 2024, the "obsolete" designation means they stopped selling it 7 years ago. I don't buy many movies, just ones I want to watch more than once (and don't want to deal with the disappointment of finding it's moved to yet another streaming service whose additional monthly payment I can't afford). What I do much more often is rent DVDs, or borrow them from my local library. Believe it or not, it's still more convenient for some of us in the year 2024 C.E. to go out and borrow a physical copy of a movie or TV show than deal with the hassle of giving out payment details to the streaming service flavor of the month. And this laptop is among the last to enable that convenience without being shackled to an external drive. It's old news but (apparently) some people still care.