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External laptop Cd drive

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So I'm looking at a laptop I might go buy tomorrow (need for school) it's pretty nice, i7, 8GB ram, 5400 rpm 1TB HDD 1080p. Anyways it doesn't come with a CD drive. How would I go about using an external one? Would just need it occasionally for installing programs, lots of times CDs come with books for my classes. I have CD drive for a desktop computer but I'm not sure how I would connect that to a laptop.........anyways how can I accomplish this?

Current PC build: [CPU: Intel i7 8700k] [GPU: GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix] [Ram: Corsair LPX 32GB 3000MHz] [Mobo: Asus Prime Z370-A] [SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 500GB primary + Samsung 860 Evo 1TB secondary] [PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 750w 80plus] [Monitors: Dual Dell Ultrasharp U2718Qs, 4k IPS] [Case: Fractal Design R5]

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You could always just purchase a cheap external drive (dvd, bluray etc) which connects via USB 2.0+? 

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