G40-70 with no optical drive

Hello everyone,
I recently purcahsed a G40-70 last week that did not come with an optical drive. Lenovo has recently changed the specs on the same model laptop to where it contains an DVD drive now. I would like to know if not having a optical drive will affect the performance and weight of the laptop? I am contemplating about returning it back to get the optic drive installed if there is no difference in portability and performance.

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The optical drive will add very, very, little weight to the laptop so that is not an issue. As for performance, until needed the optical drive will just sit there not using any Windows Resources.
Optical drives overall can be very useful. They are great for listening to CD music, watching a recorded DVD or making backup copies of data. In an emergency they can be used to boot up the computer with various rescue discs to recover files.
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