Nothing other than very low-end consumer-grade systems comes with an optical drive any longer, and even support for 2.5" drives is sharply declining.
The fact that you never brought up a much more reasonable alternative - a 17" XPS or Precision system -- means you likely limited the budget to the 3000 series 15". In other words, you were steered toward that system on the basis of your budget, not because of the feature set you wanted.
Every system is a compromise of price, performance and features. It's very clear you chose the first as primary one.
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Nothing other than very low-end consumer-grade systems comes with an optical drive any longer, and even support for 2.5" drives is sharply declining.
The fact that you never brought up a much more reasonable alternative - a 17" XPS or Precision system -- means you likely limited the budget to the 3000 series 15". In other words, you were steered toward that system on the basis of your budget, not because of the feature set you wanted.
Every system is a compromise of price, performance and features. It's very clear you chose the first as primary one.