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All MBPs will lose optical drive within a few months
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This. The Air has always seemed like a proof-of-concept to me. "Here's what we can do; here's where we're going. But right now, obviously, this doesn't make sense for our main line."
The MacBook Air is there precisely for the people who think they don't need an HDD or an optical drive. I'll go out on a limb and even predict that the MacBook Pro will adopt Blu Ray before it goes without an optical drive. One day, the Pro line will adopt these features. But that will surely mark the end of the Air line.
All I can say is I'd be super duper happy if they lost the slot load!! My first Mac was with my first Ssd and removing the optical would remove all moving parts!!! Not to mention I think I burned 3 CDs or do in almost 2 years ? :/
To all those who complain about it... An external drive is an option. They look awesome too!
I simply didn't use it at all. I'd love to see it go.
To all those who complain about it... An external drive is an option. They look awesome too!
I simply didn't use it at all. I'd love to see it go.
Sort of, sort of not. How do you plan on upgrading the operating system without an optical drive?The drive sesems pretty useless after all now when the mac app store is out
if this is a redundant thread, stop posting in it. oh yes. and stop whining and trolling. as long as there are people interested in this matter, there will be threads about those topics.
"I didnt use any language so maybe you should learn what language is." you really do not know what "watch your language" means, do you? sad... but not surprising.
Or with an external optical drive. Or by connection to the optical drive in a desktop computer.
Doesn't seem like a dilemma at all to me.
LoL you mean the one that A) Apple doesn't sell to common folk and B) Is only available with the Macbook Air. We can only speculate that 10.7 will be available for consumption via flash. It seemed more like a bandaid to the lack of disk drive (and requiring customers to either use the external or find another machine and share it's disk drive). The remote install procedure itself was not without it's hiccups.
I can see how and why Apple would want to move in this direction, but I'm not ready to lose my optical drive.
+1 itunes is great but my local cd store can be alot lot cheaper on some cds and i use the 'import to itunes' feature a lot....
Might as well give up, you cant justify anything to these "Professional" photographers, musicians, engineers and facebookers...
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Eh?
tjb1 said:
Eh?
Yeah, I brought this thread back up.
This is exactly why it makes zero sense to bicker back and forth about something none of us know about. Speculation's cool and even fun, but don't argue over something you know nothing about. It makes you look silly.
This is exactly why it makes zero sense to bicker back and forth about something none of us know about. Speculation's cool and even fun, but don't argue over something you know nothing about. It makes you look silly.
Yeah, I brought this thread back up.
This is exactly why it makes zero sense to bicker back and forth about something none of us know about. Speculation's cool and even fun, but don't argue over something you know nothing about. It makes you look silly.
But interweb debates are fun
But interweb debates are fun
I love debates, don't get me wrong. But this thread is a classic example of people being uncivil, irrational, and foolish... Er, uh, I guess you were right, a typical interweb debate!