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unless you sacrifice [...] optical drive space What they really sacrificed here was the opportunity to make a compelling product. It's 2011, when have you last
by moe 16y ago
unless you sacrifice [...] optical drive space
What they really sacrificed here was the opportunity to make a compelling product. It's 2011, when have you last time used an optical drive?
- hrktb 16y agoIt's 2011, when have you last time used an optical drive? I see where you're standing. But actually I receive two DVDs per week in my mailbox, so last time was today. And I still buy CDs, yes. I think what you really want is the next iteration of the Air with whatnot is missing from the current model.
- moe 16y agoSo, honest question, would you not trade the internal CD-Rom for better battery life, more ram, lighter weight or some other tangible advantage? The only situation where I could imagine an external CD-Rom to get in the way would be for watching DVDs on the go. But afaik even for that most people copy the movie to the harddrive beforehand - to prevent the drive from sucking the battery dry while watching.
- hrktb 16y agoInstead of the above trade off, I think I'd buy two machines if needed. I see the MBP as a laptop to use plugged in a socket and with a lan cable at home, work, a client's place or a library, and only need decent portability and battery life. For all other uses I'd prefer the ipad or the Air(wish I get the $$ for it).
- pmjordan 16y agoI have no idea why they're still so popular. I can only assume people don't think about it rationally. I don't know anyone who drags DVDs around with them, so why drag around the drive? Frankly, I haven't needed an optical drive in a laptop since booting from USB drives became practical a few years ago. (happy MacBook Air user here) It'll be interesting to see if Apple fleshes out its Cinema display into a combined docking station and screen using the Thunderbolt port's potential. Add a DVD drive, HDD for Time Machine, USB/Firewire controllers, ExpressCard slot, whatever, using the PCIe channel in the Thunderbolt.
- jseliger 16y agoLast night, to rip a DVD from Netflix. Before that, I didn't use it often, to be fair, but I've still used it to install Office, to install OS X, and to burn a DVD with the complete audio _Ulysses_ on it. Do I use it as often as I did, say, 10 years ago? No, but I can imagine why Apple would leave it.
- vrruiz 16y agoWhen I updated the system to Snow Leopard.
- xuki 16y agoGiven the Air's recovery thumbdrive, I think Apple can start sell the next OS X version in thumbdrive form =). 1st thing I did when I receive my Snow Leopard DVD is to RIP it to my firewire HDD.
- GeorgeTirebiter 16y agoI'm curious why they didn't put in a Blu-Ray reader/writer, if they're going to put in an optical drive at all?
- xuki 16y agoBecause it costs more.