Re:New MacBook Pro series
by russell_h on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:37PM
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I think he meant (or this is certainly what I was hoping for) that removing the optical bay would leave space for a much larger battery.
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Ah, that makes more sense. Although a battery is a lot denser than an optical drive, so that would kick the system weight up. If you use some of the space gained to instead make the system thinner, you start to get essentially a Macbook Air. And I think it's fairly clear that Apple is moving in the direction of converging the Air and the 13" MBP.