The FUTURE of the Macbook Pro

[Prodo123]

I am a music professional. I have two studios, both of which use Mac Pros. I can take my MacBook Pro out for on-site recording jobs but those are few and far between.

The ODD is utterly useless for us. We use external drives in our studios that can burn discs if it's absolutely necessary, but most clients receive their finished product on a USB drive or remotely over the web. The only time we ever burn discs anymore is when we have someone who is totally technophobic and doesn't have a computer at home. These people are few and far between.

There was a time when we would burn reference discs to check out mixes on, but that is overly time consuming and carries expenses over time. It's much easier to do a quick sync to an iPod and reference that way--which is how everyone listens to music today anyhow.

In our state this also gets us around charging sales tax. Because we provide no tangible item, there is no sales tax. For our clients this means a substantial savings that they are all too happy to accept.

I guess we work differently then.

 

[caats19]

i think it's interesting most wanna drop the 13'' and ODD when pretty much all my fellow college students use that computer and want that one. The drop of ODD won't sit well with students who use their mbp as their desktop/notebook.

 

[dusk007]

The drop of ODD won't sit well with students who use their mbp as their desktop/notebook.

I lived for a few years in student dorms now and studied too and while most Notebooks had ODD nobody ever used them.
Teachers put files on SVN repositories, or they send you weblinks per mail, or the just send you pdfs per mail, or it is on the course website or the instute website for download.
Students share via LAN (skype ..), dropbox or flash drives and external harddrives. I cannot even remember when the last time was that I have seen a CD or DVD.
The only use for they still get is for installing operating systems.

I don't know what you study (archeology, but they are still in real books) but on universities ODD is haven't gotten any real use for years. There maybe the occasional teacher who gives out material via a DVD but somebody has an odd and the stuff is on dropbox in no time.
It maybe that in professional music production circles the OD is still used (I wouldn't know) but among the young generation and universities there are only homeopathic traces left.

 

[caats19]

i actually say it more in a way that some people wouldn't get why they pay so much for less. in THEIR minds anyway. also, pre-med students, or any student having to take some post-undergrad test usually buy those prep-books, all of them come with DVD stuff. I mean, it's not a big deal to me. If this SSD/HDD hybrid comes to life, i will buy it immediately and just buy that external odd. Cause I'm still a weirdo and buy CDs, so i need to burn those to my itunes, and i like playing the sims sometimes.