Acer one D270 netbook (ext disc drive)?
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strollin
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Yes, you absolutely can. Look on-line or in shops near you for an external DVD drive. Here's a link to Amazon with some listed: amazon.co.uk External Optical Drives. The slim portables generally do not need a separate power supply but may need to use 2 USB ports on the machine to get sufficient power.
I'd also ask, why do you think you need one? When I bought my first netbook around 3.5 years ago, I also purchased an external DVD drive for it. I used it a couple of times but haven't used it now in several years, it sits in the cupboard unused.
If you intend to use it to watch DVD movies then that's a good use but for pretty much any other use there are other ways of doing the same thing without the need for the external drive.
I'd also ask, why do you think you need one? When I bought my first netbook around 3.5 years ago, I also purchased an external DVD drive for it. I used it a couple of times but haven't used it now in several years, it sits in the cupboard unused.
If you intend to use it to watch DVD movies then that's a good use but for pretty much any other use there are other ways of doing the same thing without the need for the external drive.
matty6660
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I need to use it mainly for running software.
strollin
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For running software, you can often copy the contents of the CD/DVD to a USB thumb drive and it will actually run faster. Unfortunately, this won't work if the original DVD has some kind of copy protection scheme. I'm not much of a gamer (netbooks aren't well suited to it anyway) so any software I needed for my netbooks was easily copied to a thumb drive for use on the netbook. For 1 time transfers, it's easy enough to network your netbook with other computers to be able to transfer stuff that way.
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