The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM

Re:The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM by cmdrfred on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:41PM (#12454621)

While my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive anymore. It does have a DVD drive and USB ports. Who is this 'everyone'?

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Re:The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM by bitwize on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:13PM (#12456290)

"ports older than USB" meant serial and, later, ethernet.

My new-issue Dell work laptop lacks an optical drive and Ethernet. My dad just bought an even beefier Dell laptop and the first thing he asked was "where's the DVD drive?" Dell offered to send him a free external USB optical drive, but told him that internal optical drives were simply not an option on that make of laptop.

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Re:The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM by cmdrfred on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:52PM (#12457206)

Did Apple ever offer a laptop with a serial port?

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Re:The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM by ChickeNES on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:49AM (#12460310)

Every Apple laptop prior to the Powerbook G3 Lombard, released in 1998, had serial port(s).

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Re:The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM by bitwize on Friday September 09, 2016 @05:47AM (#12460723)

Yes, in the form of ADB at least.

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