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Why Apple will NOT drop the Optical Drive in the new MBP.
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With those specs, if Apple can pull down this model's price to maintain its target market, it will continue with its current success. I'm hoping from the current $1,199 to $999.
Then, I hope Apple will surprise us by giving a proper Pro treatment with it's 13" high-end model. I'm hoping pound for pound improvements like quad core, SSD stock, dropping the optical, adding another fan to accommodate a discrete GPU, near-retina resolution etc. This sounds too good to be true but a guy can dream. We'll soon find out.
The problem here is this
If the price goes down to $999 then edu pricing has to be a minimum of $50 off on top of annual "Back to school incentives" You're asking Apple to eat a lot of money which isn't going to happen.
Really it makes more sense to remove the optical drive which allows for a lot more room in the 13" model. Add discrete GPU and Quad Core.
Reduce the 13" Air to $1199 and increase the 13" MBP if need be to $1299.
You just put the DVD into an external USB DVD drive, OS X reads it during the Boot Camp process, and it installs normally. I've done it several times now. It's not voodoo magic.
On my 2010 Notebook it never seems to work if I try it with an external OD drive. I would blame Apple for that quite fixable problem so it is no reason not to remove the OD but still it doesn't work.
After a reboot it doesn't initialize the OD soon enough and it won't boot because it cannot find the Windows DVD. It only boots after the partition is bootable but not of the external drive.
After a reboot it doesn't initialize the OD soon enough and it won't boot because it cannot find the Windows DVD. It only boots after the partition is bootable but not of the external drive.
Then why aren't we all driving Model-T Fords, or, more on-topic, working on PowerBooks and listening to our iPod Classics?
As Henry Ford (didn't actually) once said, "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse"
What will you give us if you are wrong. Donate $1000 to a good cause if your wrong or something.
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Drop the educational pricing, period. Everyone games the system anyway.
Well can Apple at least make the effort of including the external DVD drive? I mean we are paying $2000+ for a machine that doesn't even include an basic hardware component?
Plus, Apple is so cutting edge. Can't they just make a thin DVD drive that can be built inside this thin MacBook?
Plus, Apple is so cutting edge. Can't they just make a thin DVD drive that can be built inside this thin MacBook?
To you it's basic. To me it's an unnecessary add-on I'd resent paying for.
And no matter how thin it could be, it's over five inches wide. That's space that can't be used for other things.
By dropping the DVD they can add the retina without raising the price .
Of course they won't.
Woah, there are plenty of genuine students out there who find the discount very useful.
Optical disk is dead for Apple so go to Windows 8. Oh wait Windows 8 doesnt even support DVD playback.
Its time for the optical disk to die. Anyone who can't get access to fast internet should either move to somewhere that has and stop complaining, the rest if us want to move on thanks.
Its time for the optical disk to die. Anyone who can't get access to fast internet should either move to somewhere that has and stop complaining, the rest if us want to move on thanks.
If only it were that easy. Half of the UK can't get fast broadband courtesy of the incumbent operator being unwilling to upgrade their network. Nor is moving house an option when it can take over a year to sell a home.
A 1080p BluRay movie can be 50 gb in size. Good luck downloading it. ( Btw, windows 8 can play back DVD's with Apps )
So you're going to buy a $2200 laptop, but it's unable to install your software on it. You have to buy an external DVD player. That's just silly that a $2200 laptop can't install software that is not in the Mac store.
( I highly doubt Apple is going to give a free external DVD player with your $2200 MBP )
Your argument would be more convincing if you weren't ignoring the rest of the Macbook Pro lineup that starts at $1199.
Leave everything at the discount rate. Cut the discount in half, and that's the price.
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Considering blue ray is a stinking pile of bull flop, what does it matter.
Yeah totally because you know... $100 for an external, slim, USB-powered Blu-ray player is a huge expense...
Also why is $2200 your example number? That's the 17" you're getting into for your extreme example there, which is irrelevant anyway.
