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Yes, Dell sells an external dvd writer and I think a blue ray writer that plugs into one of the many usb ports. I bought the dvd drive for under $50.00. The downside is that there is no dvd player that comes with the basic windows 8 software but you can download a free VLC media player. The downside of this is that it does not fully utilize the screen. This problem will likely get fixed with a later patch however.