Future of MBP's

[rohit6060]

ok,after reading all thez comments and suggestions,I guess the best way is to get rid off the OD ONLY in 13" model.Let the 15" and 17" models have these ODs so people who use them,have options.1 thing most people don't understand is that by removing optical drives,its not like they can't access CD/DVDs,u can always have external drives for $50-100...And still if u love these drives go for 15" and 17"...I guess this will satisfy the majority.
Now to utilize the space on 13",firstly give it a speed bump,it lags behind many $1000 laptops in terms of specs,so give it a good GPU and just put a massive battery in the remaining space,even if they increase the size of battery by 1.5x times,we'll have some 10 hours of real time usage.
This way 13" will be a perfect fit between the air and the pro...
What do u guys think?

 

[slapple]

How likely is it that the next MBP refresh will be 16:9 instead of the current 16:10 aspect ratio?

 

[Muscle Master]

What about proprietary SSD card + 2.5" HDD? That's what I presume Apple would do if it were to offer 2 hard drives.

That will actually be a very good thing for apple to do!!

But I'm still against it.. what's to stop apple from selling us crap SSD's for the price they charge us consumers. unless I see all other SSD vendors making this a standard.. I would hate for apple to do this

You see what happen to those who brought their SSD's from apple.. they got screwed vs the performance they could have gotten buy going aftermarket.. and would have saved too!!

 

[rekhyt]

I think if they removed the optical drive, there could be more space for a better cooling system for the MacBook Pros (15" and 17")-You could add in a better processor and graphics card with negligible heat increase because of that.

Using the new ATI series graphics cards wouldn't be bad either too.