We bought a laptop computer. It has been years since I’ve used one. I forgot how exasperating a touchpad is. Luckily, we have a spare wireless mouse and a USB port. The laptop is slim and very light, like most laptops these days.
I remember the first “laptop” I had early in my career as a consulting psychiatrist. I think it weighed about 2-3 times what the modern ones weigh nowadays. I think I could have stopped a thief from taking it from me by whacking him over the head with it.
If I remember correctly, it had a slot for floppy discs and another for disc media. It developed a hardware problem which forced me to box it up and send it back to the manufacturer for repairs. I don’t remember how long I kept it after that.
The new laptops don’t have any internal optical drives built into them.
I read a tech article in which the author’s opinion about the gradual disappearance of internal optical drives and other physical media for laptops was probably the result of large companies finding out they could make more money by charging subscription fees for digital media.
Microsoft comes to mind.
Go Retire Psychiatrist 
I remember the old days (early days of the Internet) where you could get a desktop or laptop from Gateway and end up on the line with tech support for hours. I basically dissembled an entire computer while talking to one of their support people. It worked after I put it back together – but these machines seem much more reliable these days.
I also don’t like touchpads and use a mouse. I got a repetitive stress mouse injury on the right from too many EHR mouse clicks and just use my left hand.
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OMG! Disassembled an entire computer? OK, that beats anything that ever happened to me, although hours at a time on the phone with tech support was a given back in the day.
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