I bought this pixelbook because I needed a new laptop for my studies and my old laptop was dying. I saw that I could use dvd's on this pixelbook as they are part of my online education. you cannot use dvd's on this pixelbook, you must convert all video to digital and view them in the cloud. This was the main reason for purchasing this product, it's price and portability which would allow me to attend my classes anywhere that I was. I bought an external dvd player to attach to it, this was useless and the pixelbook does not serve my needs as I was told. I will go back to a microsoft environment so that I can continue my studies.