Not necessarily. Several vendors have 7.5 mm high drives, and they go up to 500 GB.
Alright, let me clarify, the drives that APPLE USE are the same thickness as the optical drive at the its (the optical drive's) thickest point.
Oh goody. Yet another "i don't use it so no one else does either" post.
Welcome to forums.macrumors.com, this happens ALL THE TIME! I'm completely fine with differing opinions, and I respect that people here hate the optical drive, but it really reflects poorly when people assume that their opinion is the dominant one and are only citing the Macrumors populace for that figure. It's not like the majority of Mac users hang out here.
Indeed. The fact that they're so un-Apple-like and too good to be true renders them somewhat doubtful, though. (e.g., Apple is going to keep the battery not replaceable, but make a drive bay swappable? seems unlikely.)
That's what I thought when I read their article.
I think they would go for all lightpeak ports. No more USB or Firewire. Lightpeak all the way.
Lightpeak isn't ready yet. When it's ready, you'll hear enough about it to give that prediction some weight and maybe some credibility.
I want USB 3.0, but that might be asking for to much.
Apple won't support it until Intel natively supports it in their chipsets, and Intel won't natively support it in their chipsets until it further catches on, just like they did with USB 2.0.
I think this will be the year I pull the trigger on a nice MacBook Pro. Every time they refresh / redesign them I get tempted, but always talk myself out of it because of the price or the fact I know it will be refreshed again usually in less than a year.
I have a big problem with purchasing something and feeling that it's outdated shortly thereafter, but I guess I can't live in fear forever.
Make way, I'll be a mac convert soon.
Buy it a month after the refresh and then start saving up for the machine to replace it in 5 years. That way, when it is refreshed, you can take comfort knowing that your next computer will blow the refreshed version away and then some.
We'll have to wait and see what happens. If the MacBook isn't discontinued, I think it should be updated sometime in the next few months or so. Whether or not that's at the same time as the MBPs is another matter. I'd suggest keeping an eye on the rumours released over the next few weeks or so leading up to the MBP refresh.
The "MacBook" won't be discontinued. They might make the polycarbonate model an "education only" model, and they might rebrand the "13" MacBook Pro" back into the new "MacBook", but the "MacBook" line isn't going anywhere. I'd bet the money I'm saving on a 15" MacBook Pro on it.
Im with you there Zen! Cmon Stevey boy get your arse of the sick and get those MBP's shipped out now,. RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! Im dropping the cash on one as soon as they are available. Good bye super drive- you leach.
Explain to me how a computer part that while sometimes faulty, is more or less useful as all hell when it is used, is a leech. So far, it only hampers the 13" Pro's ability to have a discrete GPU, and even then, those that REQUIRE that machine to have it are in the small minority. And if you want a 13" Pro with a discrete GPU why the hell aren't you getting a 15" Pro? Apple's marketing supports that rhetorical question, if you all haven't picked up on that yet.
You and the people you know must be hard on your equipment. I personally have never seen one fail. Must be the dry AZ air we have here.
Of the four Macs that I've owned with slot-load optical drives, three have had theirs fail. It doesn't mean that I want mine gone, I just want a more durable one put in its place, but I'm resigned to the notion that it won't happen.
I like this idea! A Macbook Air style SSD, maybe 128GB just for boot and applications, along with a mechanical hard drive for bulk storage.
We can put things like music, video, the SteamApps folder
and such on the mechanical hard drive, which would also spin down when not being used, saving battery life too.
Mechanical drive could also be optional (empty bay) for users who don't need that much capacity. Mmmm.
Heck we can already do this with current models, by sacraficing the superdrive, putting an SSD in the HD bay and a mechanical drive in the optical bay with an adapter.
Time Machine needs to be able to back up all Internal drives to the same back-up. Then I'd be so down for this.
If the optical drive becomes optional:
- 13" MacBook Pro gets dedicated graphics.
- Second drive bay for HDD or SSD storage.
- More battery.
If they get flash storage:
- Dedicated drive for Mac OS X and iOS allowing Apple to separate the OSes and their utilities from the users' accounts and applications. Apple will partition the drive with Mac OS X on one, and iOS on the other, making it easy for Apple to update each OS independently.
- Instead of one HDD/SSD case there will be 3-4 PCI-Express slots which will make it easy for people to increase storage as they need it or wait until prices are low enough for them to purchase.
1, if there is no optical drive in the 13", Apple won't use the reclaimed space for dedicated graphics, nor a second drive bay, let alone both (which is physically impossible unless they thicken the size of the machine), nor will they make the battery capacity larger. If anything they'd used improved technology to preserve the current battery lifetimes in smaller batteries and tote how much thinner they are.
