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Thanksgiving Roundup: Apple Buys Land, New MacBooks in April, App Store Sales, Black Friday Prices

KnightWRX said:
Or on Credit Cards, with bonus points! Which you pay with cash the next day so they don't ever get to charge you interest. :cool:
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I like the credit card deals, pay it off in a year and there is not interest. I always pay it minimum payment until 20 days before a year is up then pay it off.
 
fergusjk said:
...CD-ROMs/DVDs are 1990s technology. Streaming/downloading is the present and the future. And small usb sticks are a far more elegant solution for shipped software.
If some people desperately need a 'superdrive' then they can buy an external one.
I need a new MBP as I'm still using the first gen MBP (Jan 2006) but I'm not buying one till that waste of space superdrive is removed as standard...
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Okay, what about all those games I bought on DVDs and that require the physical media to play? What about those movies on DVDs I bought and didn't rip? What about 10 years of backup of photos and files that I put on DVDs to get some free space on my computer? What about those 300+ music CDs I have and didn't rip (and don't plan to do anytime soon)?

Maybe I should take a month off to free some space on my computer, rip and copy all those files, start a Time Machine backup, wait a few weeks, remove the added files and finally feel happy to have a computer without a DVD drive... ;)
 
morespce54 said:
Okay, what about all those games I bought on DVDs and that require the physical media to play? What about those movies on DVDs I bought and didn't rip? What about 10 years of backup of photos and files that I put on DVDs to get some free space on my computer? What about those 300+ music CDs I have and didn't rip (and don't plan to do anytime soon)?

Maybe I should take a month off to rip and copy all those files on my computer, start a Time Machine backup, wait a few weeks, remove the added files and finally feel happy to have a computer without a DVD drive... ;)
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Wow, April for new MBPs?? Lame as hell.
 
april?

arent the macbook and macbooks pros due for an update pretty much now according to the buyers guide?

4-5 more months
 
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I'd love a 15" Mac Book Air with a core i7 and 256 gb ssd for $1999 :)
 
asdf542 said:
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I know, it could work and I know that one day computers will be DVD drive less but I'm not just there yet (and don't feel like buying a separate device just for the sake of computer being thiner).

When Apple removed the floppy, that was huge. But they didn't use their best selling computer to do that, they used (or created) a new computer, the iMac. Just like the MBA or more recently, the iPad.

I really like the idea of the iPad, but I couldn't use it as my only computer either... for now (same thing for the MBA)!

I say, go with the Macbook first, then later, the MBP then the MP (if it still available by then).
 
i may be wrong on this, but i always saw mbp's as mobile workstations. sexy ones at that. but, wouldn't slimming them down any further compromise this ability to be able to work on the go?
 
morespce54 said:
I know, it could work and I know that one day computers will be DVD drive less but I'm not just there yet (and don't feel like buying a separate device just for the sake of computer being thiner).
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The computer being thinner is one minor advantage to removing an optical drive. The removal of the optical drive would benefit all of Apple's computers in multiple ways except for the Mac Pro(obviously, since that doesn't have space constraints). The iMac could have a desktop GPU. The Mac Mini could have dual hard-drives, SSD+HDD combo, or discrete graphics. The 13" MBP and MB could have discrete graphics. The 15" and 17" could have dual HDD's in a RAID or an SSD+HDD combo or more space for higher TDP parts, in turn leading to an overall stronger MacBook Pro in terms of performance. The possibilities are nearly endless. For those that do need it, they can buy an external one. If you just don't "feel" like buying one, then chances are you don't really need it.
 
MacRumors said:
Apple Australia has already begun their Black Friday sales with the following discounts:

-A$51 on iPad (8%)
-A$121 on MBP (8%)
-A$15 or 25 on Nano (respective sizes) (up to 12%)
-A$25, 45 or 51 on iPod Touch (respective sizes) (up to 18%)
-A$121 on MBA (only 13") (7.5%)
-A$121 on iMac (8%)

We'll cover Apple's U.S. Black Friday sales tomorrow, which should offer similar savings.
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And even before Australia began their Black Friday sales was the New Zealand store (by at least 2 hours) -> http://store.apple.com/nz
:D
 
OK. Some of you rarely use an optical drive. Some of you never.

But the MBP is a PRO machine, which a lot of music and film pro's use on a daily basis.

I have a MBP and a Mac Pro.

When I'm working at a clients office I take my MBP. Once the edit is done - and the client is happy - I just burn it on the MBP. No need to go back and fourth. Simple.

But without a optical drive...... it won't be impossible. Just won't be as efficient and client friendly as I, a pro user, would like.

And before anyone suggests taking an external drive with me... doing so would defeat the purpose of having a slimmer laptop!
 
The Optical Drive Discussion is officially stupid

You mean to tell me, that as a MacBook Pro customer (note the word "PRO"). I won't be able to EDIT VIDEO, and then BURN discs to an OPTICAL DRIVE that is built-in to the machine? I'll need to buy a separate attachment for $100? I'm sorry, but screw that. It's inconvenient, and if I'm already shelling out $1000 more for a Mac laptop than a PC laptop equivalent (with the same, if not faster specs) that I could probably Hackintosh to run OS X, I should at least be treated to the convenience of not having to use one of the two or even three USB ports and extra desk/lap/pillow space that I have for burning things. I do video editing, and while I'm not installing software every friggin' second on my optical drive, you better believe, I'm going to be doing a ton of DVD burning. Give me the SSD they have in the MacBook Air, fine (though preferably with a hard drive as I'm not willing to pay an arm and a leg for anywhere near 500B worth of Flash JUST yet), but if you take out the optical drive on the MacBook Pro line, you end up with quite a few pissed off customers, me being one of them. As soon as you make SD cards or streaming the unarguable standard for distribution of digital video, you can't kill the optical drive. Period.

Also, might I remind the thread that Jobs' quote was "The Next Generation of MacBooks" not "The Next Generation of MacBook Pros" nor "The Next Generation of Laptops". Sure, optical media might not enjoy a long and prosperous future, though that day is many years off for us Pro customers. For the regular MacBook, which shares just about everything with its low-end 13" Pro equivalent, save for a FireWire 800 Port (which most consumers won't miss), an IR sensor (which most consumers won't miss), and backlit keyboards (which most consumers don't care about), the only things separating the current 13" MacBook Air from the white MacBook are Aluminum, a proper hard drive (which most consumers don't require the space for and would be fine replacing for flash), an optical drive (which most of them don't use or would be fine with the external superdrive for the one or two times they need it), and an Ethernet port. Make a 13" MacBook Air that has an Ethernet port and have it replace the white MacBook and you won't piss anyone off because for that audience, you've taken out the unnecessary and made everything else awesome. The end.
 
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RoboCop001 said:
What if they had SSD + second internal storage? Some people need to carry around hundreds of gigs of stuff. And no external HD :D
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That's the only way they could get away with SSD in the MacBook Pro while prices are this high. Nobody can afford $5000 for a laptop with decent amount of SSD, and I certainly don't want a 1KB SSD in a MacBook Pro like the new MacBook Airs have. (ok, 64GB, not 1KB, but they share something in common, nowhere near enough storage).

By the way - how do you play games that require the CD or DVD to be in the optical drive on a computer that doesn't have an optical drive? (such as Diablo)
 
asdf542 said:
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What’s in the Box

* MacBook Air SuperDrive with attached USB cable
* User’s Guide

System Requirements

* MacBook Air computer
* Mac Mini Server

So the only option is a LaCie or another brand of external DVD unless Apple changes its proprietary policy on the superdrive pictured!
 
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RoboCop001 said:
What if they had SSD + second internal storage? Some people need to carry around hundreds of gigs of stuff. And no external HD :D
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That's the only way they could get away with SSD in the MacBook Pro while prices are this high. Nobody can afford $5000 for a laptop with decent amount of SSD, and I certainly don't want a 1KB SSD in a MacBook Pro like the new MacBook Airs have. (ok, 64GB, not 1KB, but they share something in common, nowhere near enough storage).

By the way - how do you play games that require the CD or DVD to be in the optical drive on a computer that doesn't have an optical drive? (such as Diablo)
 
You guys realize that DVD's don't last forever, most cheap consumer DVD's will last 5-10 years, you need to have gold or silver archive DVD's that will last 50-100.


Flash storage will outlast DVD's/HDD.
 
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I'd be happy if they'd just go back to the Express card slot instead of the SD card reader (or at the very least add another USB).

Just my 2 cents.
 
scouser75 said:
But the MBP is a PRO machine, which a lot of music and film pro's use on a daily basis.
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Doesn't matter if it's a Pro machine. What matters is who buys it. If the vast majority of people who buy a MBP don't use the drive often enough to require one, it's not only lost profits, but a terrible waste of stuff that will end up in landfill, unused
 
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