The Air's lack of an optical drive doesn't bother me.

I'm not even sure that I know what on earth an optical drive is.

It didn't need an optical drive, because your main desktop computer already had one.

Never would have thought about not having an optical drive, but that makes sense!

I don't need to have an optical drive with me on the go.

The optical drive is a commodity product at this point.

There should be room for two internal hard drives and a single optical drive.

However the Edge 11 and 13 does not include an optical drive.

Either way, it'll cost you at least a couple hundred dollars to add an optical drive.

For this, it was available without a video card or optical drive.