Pressure said:
I thought you were buying a PC...
Regardless, do you even own the product which you refer to?
Speak for yourself first
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and yes, if anything I owned a sweltering PBG4 before. Nice hand warmer in the winter aye?
Pressure said:
So it's like using an external drive although in a clumsier way?
You know that the majority will want it so they can put in a larger drive.
Although I can see you have a genuine use for it and a good point. Not sure how fantastic the option to open your notebook in the middle of the field and changing the hard drive out really is, I am sure a handful of people would use it. Say, 5-7?
The MacBook has it but I don't hear stories about people doing it . . .
Who are you to dictate what Multimedia should and should not do with the MBP? Oh, and by the way, have
you owned a Macbook? Here's news, apart from the PBG4 I mentioned earlier, I owned a Macbook too as well!
Wow, perhaps I actually *gasp* have more hands on experience with Macs than someone who just walks into shops, touch it a little, and thinks he is a Mac user.
FYI, the easy access HD panel is right besides the battery in the battery compartment. In case you still don't get it, it does not affect the "cleanliness" of design that non-PC-using people and females appreciate. Notice I left out males in that list
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Pressure said:
So you always carry around an extra hard drive, in case an accident like you described happens? Or a screen? Or extra ram? Or an extra logic board?
Hey, not everyone is like you... but yes, people do appreciate the ability to change a hard drive without involving the top keyboard cover, the optical drive, and all of their family and friends.
Pressure said:
I can see Apple needs to rethink their target-group. We better call Mr. Jobs and explain to him that the majority of users buying MacBook Pros are anarchaeologist that live in a tent 500 miles from everywhere.
So... guess you never tried a hand on upgrading a computer at all?
What if you work on classified data/writing a research paper/tons of other reasons why you want to keep your data safe, and happen to need to send your computer in for servicing?
Sorry, but Apple's "Oh don't worry, nothing will happen to it!" does not jibe with me. Incidentally Thinkpad's technicians recognise this and they will remove your hard drive, right before your eyes, in your presence, should you request it. Read the earlier bit about involving every other component's family and friends again, doesn't seem so easy to do that on a counter now doesn't it?
These boys play with the enterprise, they know enterprise. Apple can stick with clean lines and effeminate designs if they so desire, perhaps we should call Jobs on that too, he seems quite out of the loop on how his products are doing in big business, oh wait... they are non existent.
Save your sarcasm to yourself, and just so you know, there are sheep, and there are people who dislike being told what to and what not to do with their things. You may be the former, but don't assume those of the latter to be the same as you.
Edit: while you are at it why not remove the memory upgrade latch? Better still make it an internal battery too, and eliminate every last line from the outter case! And get rid of the ports too, and maybe put in some proprietary wireless USB transmitter into the casing that communicates with an external wireless port replicator. Where exactly will you draw the line then?
Form > Function may be for you, but hey, hands up for anyone else who had their iPod run out of juice in the middle of a long flight, and wonder why the heck they didn't put in replaceable batteries on that thing.
