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I personally want an optical drive. Am I old fashioned? I don't trust these movie and music download stuff and prefer hardware in my drawer. For my last busine
by mironathetin 16y ago
I personally want an optical drive. Am I old fashioned? I don't trust these movie and music download stuff and prefer hardware in my drawer.
For my last business trip, I quickly copied my iTunes library to my business Macbook (in a hurry, the evening before). On the remote site I switched on the audio book that I recently started and got the message: this computer is not authorized ...
Get my point?
- robin_reala 16y agoRight, but are you carrying the media with you all the time? If not then a small external drive is a decent compromise - if you think you’ll need it you can chuck it in the bag as well and you can at least not take it if you think you won‘t.
- mironathetin 16y agoWell, in terms of movies: you break the law, if you extract them to the harddrive. For the rest, you are right, it is possible to carry a drive. But then we are back to the clutter on the desk that we had in the 80s and 90s and just got rid of. This is progress? Without an optical drive works only properly, if you download the data or get them on non optical media. I would be fine though, if I could download movies and music to an external storage and the DRM would be on that storage, not on a computer. A storage with at least the same possibilities that we have with CDs and DVDs today (import to iTunes without DRM!). As long as that is not possible, the Macbook Air remains a pretty good second computer IMHO.
- Qz 16y agoThat's a DRM issue, not a optical drive issue. Guess who suffers from it? Not pirates...
- vdm 16y agoThe optical drive on Mac's is region locked, which means I use it even less than never. Handbrake FTW