One can buy an external CD-Rom drive from many places. This includes online websites such as Amazon, eBay and Mwave. As well as this, one may visit a computer store to see if they have an external CD-Rom drive.
One can purchase an external DVD ROM drive from electronic stores such as Best Buy and through online sites such as Amazon, Walmart and Overstock, to name a few.
No, the Retina display model does not have a DVD-ROM drive. You can buy an external drive if need be.
Any compatible USB or Serial external CD-ROM drive should do good justice. If your ThinkPad supports SCSI interface and has a SCSI connector you can get a SCSI external drive. I would recommend Sony or Creative CD-ROM drive.
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Simply terminate each of the devices. Terminate the hard disk as well as the external cr-rom.
If you know that you computer has a CD-ROM drive navigate to My Computer and look for an image (icon) of a CD or the name CD-ROM drive. That is likely to be the CD-ROM drive, although it may have additonal capabilities such as DVD ROM, DVD-RW etc. In a computer using Windows the CD-Rom drive is usually given the drive letter 'D'. If the images/icons names are no help right click the icons one by one and check the resulting menu. You're looking for the icon with the menu optiomn eject. That will be the CD-ROM drive. If you are looking to buy one make sure you specifically ask for a CD-ROM drive, usless you need additonal capabilities as above, and specify whether you need it internal or external to the computer.
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They're mainly used for computers that lack one (usually small netbooks) but could be used as secondary CD-ROM drives.
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Most do, but the Macbook pro with Retina Display does not.
What do you mean?If you're asking about drives, a CD-ROM drive only works with CDs, but a DVD-ROM drive works with DVDs and CDs (it's called backwards compatible).You may not be able to buy new CD-ROM drives any more, anyway.