- Who uses an optical drive daily? weekly? Monthly? Yearly? - Who needs a big slow power-hungry 1GB drive instead of a flash drive? - Who needs to store > 1000 hrs music + 1000 pix + a lifetime of docs (128GB)? - Who wants 4 hours battery life when 10 hours is standard now? - How many pirated movies do you store on YOUR laptop?
This is really a backwards-thinking design, the machine is misconfigured in several ways.