Originally Posted by PC eye

First you have to know if the new model you decide to go with has the option of swapping the optical out to slide a removable floppy drive in or already has one builtin. These days you can find a long list of makes and models with or without that. As you can readily see from the images here most of the newer ultra thin style models lack a visible drive in the front while they may be seen along the side if looked over carefully.





When carefully looked over at the vendor(newegg for these two) neither model saw a floppy drive only the single optical drive it comes with. There could be some slide out floppy drives still seen. But everything now is mainly geared towards dvd and cd type drives. Usb and Firewre are also seeing more focus then the old floppy for portable use.