you reckon that removing the optical drive in a MBP would be a goodway to reduce carry around weight, increase battery life and increase air space in the body of a MBP to improve cooling? Just a thought cause I cant remember the last time i used a cd or dvd!
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remove optical drive to save weight and improve cooling?
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removing the optical drive will indeed help with battery life, maybe an extra 10 or 20minutes can be had. it will reduce weight by ~100grams?
it wont really effect air cooling at all.
it wont really effect air cooling at all.
Are you sure about that?
Does that mean installing the data doubler won't affect the warranty to?
Take care. The optical drive may work as an structural part of the body. So if you remove it the lower case may be more suitable for denting as you let a an empty hole behind it. And the hole body may be more torsionable. If you are not going to use it, replace it with an empty optibay or simply unplug it from the board.
im positive. if the data doubler doesnt break anything then its fine.
its on standby, it still consumes some power whilst waiting for a CD to be put in, minute levels but enough to make some difference.
I can't how the work to rip out the optical drive is worth the small savings in the battery and minuscule reduction in weight. I do believe the drive also helps with the stiffness of the chassis and without it you could increase the risk of denting or warping the case.
i gained 30mins battery life from taking mine out, it was a macbook pro core duo. pretty impressive by any standards.
on that machine it was honestly a time frame around 30 minutes. i was getting a max of 2hrs from the battery, then it went up to about 2.5hrs.
Your going to use more power putting a HDD/SSD in there and the level the superdrive would use on the computer now a days is miniscule compared to the battery life that they have today and you will barely notice a thing.
quite a considerable amount less, when both are active. when the ODD is idle it would be a somewhat close comparison
blu-ray isnt obsolete
Had to be useful before it would be obsolete. I guess the technical term for Blue Ray would be worthless.
There is nothing that exceeds the quality of Blu-ray Video that is available on the consumer market. Certainly not that "HD" crap from the iTunes Store.
It won't if you don't screw anything up and also put it back before you go to apple. I removed optical but always put it back before going to apple. Just don't be dumb and tell them you removed the optical drive before lol
Also the ODD is VERY LIGHT. Like I don't think I'd notice it in a 15" for sure and barely in a 13" It's probably less than 8oz.. The caddy + a mechanical HDD is heavier. The HDD alone is heaver lol