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> Removing the floppy drive and ethernet ports have clear and straightforward benefits, though. What were those clear and straightforward benefits? To the con
by derleth 14y ago
> Removing the floppy drive and ethernet ports have clear and straightforward benefits, though.
What were those clear and straightforward benefits?
To the consumer, I mean; not to Apple.
- untog 14y agoTo an extreme example, the Macbook Air. More generally, saving space, allowing you to add different things inside a laptop. I realise you could argue the same for hard disk space, but it's not anywhere near as limited.
- wiredfool 14y agoSmaller, lighter machine. I had one of the first machine where they dropped the floppy. There were 2 or 3 times that it was a real pain, and the rest of the time, it just didn't matter. Eventually, I went back to a machine with a floppy, but I wound up using zip drives instead, since the floppies were so damn small (capacity). (BTW, that's the Powerbook 100 and 5300 I'm referring to above, but I did have a duo 230 and 2300 around that time too.)