2007-12-05 10:37:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
U don't need them anymore, CD-R's are the way to go.
2007-12-05 10:48:06 · answer #1 · answered by Chuck Norris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer your question in a bit more detail, a single floppy disk can hold a little over one megabyte (1MB) of data. In comparison, recordable and re-writable CDs usually hold about 800MB, DVDs hold 4½ GB (~4500MB!) or 9GB, depending on if they're single- or dual-layer discs, and you can find tiny, relatively cheap thumb drives that plug into your USB ports and hold anywhere from 256MB to 4GB and beyond. And all of them can be written to and read from faster than a floppy disk. In today's world, floppy disks are simply useless in comparison to everything else out there; we're used to toting around bigger files than they can handle, and we expect faster performance so we can get on with whatever we're doing. As time has passed, computer manufacturers gradually stopped seeing the point in continuing to include floppy drives nobody was going to use.
2007-12-05 10:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by Mike M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because floppy drives are obsolete and unreliable. People now depend on portable media like the thumb drive and portable hard drives that hold way more than a floppy can.
2007-12-05 10:52:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Floppypersistent technologies is over a decade previous. just about no laptop comes with one anymore. The one million.4MB ability is only too small. you may no longer much extra healthful the traditional powerpoint presentation onto a floppy disk. CD burners and exceptionally flash drvies have made the floppypersistent thoroughly out of date. the only concern i will think of you desiring a floppypersistent for is once you're doing a BIOS replace and choose a bootdisk to load into DOS or once you're setting up domicile windows XP and choose RAID drivers. the former is being phased out by using domicile windows GUI variety BIOS updaters. The latter is being phased out by using Vista having everyday RAID drivers already on the Installtion DVD.
2016-10-10 08:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get a Thumb drive literally the size of your thumb that holds up to 2Gigs. Floppys are old school.
2007-12-05 10:49:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the storage and speed of a floppy is really to small to handle any of the modern programming. in other words, the media is not as fast or efficient as a cd rom.
2007-12-05 10:44:59 · answer #6 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are obsolete now.........you could purchase a extral USB floppy
2007-12-05 10:41:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋