Apple has increasingly been moving away from the use of optical media in its computers. The MacBook Air and Mac mini don't have CD/DVD drives. Would you be willing to give up optical media? This poll is just a gauge as to how ready people would be for this.
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Would you give up optical media (DVDs, CDs)?
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For me, it's enough to have one optical drive, be it an external or one inside a computer. I'm not ready to give up optical media, but I'm ready and have given it up on laptops.
The only reason i won't give up optical media is that it is still cheaper to buy judiciously, than the iTunes store. I am however quite comfortable with the idea of replacing the optical drive on a MBP with a HD/SSD.
I'd quite happily give up traditional media if $10 lossless album downloads were available.
I'd quite happily give up traditional media if $10 lossless album downloads were available.
This sums me up pretty much.... I still want optical media but I use my Air for the portability of the machine...Luckily the movement has been included for Digital & Optical media combined (blurry combos) so that I can have my Blu Ray/Dvd at home and have it digitally for all my products without optical media available..
I for one will not part with optical media, but love this movement, makes purchases worth more to me (being able to use in more than one place)
I won't part with it willingly. I still use it to rip music CD's (yes, I still buy them) and to burn (data) discs.
Nope. I copy/burn CDs way too much to be thinking about moving away from optical media. If most cars come equip with AUX then that would shift a lot of people.
Although most of the time I use my iPod in the car, I don't during extremely hot or extremely cold weather, and it is at those times when I go back to using CDs. Sometimes, too, I like to burn a playlist of a particular artist or grouping of songs that I've got in iTunes, and again use that CD in the car. I could more easily give up optical drives in a notebook device such as the MBA or MBP but would really prefer to keep a Superdrive available in a desktop. Since now they've removed that option from the current Mac Mini it seems that Apple is thinking a bit differently than I am on this issue. Ah, well.... I really hope that they leave a superdrive in the Mac Pro and in the iMac for at least a while longer.
