Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices

Re:Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices by axod on Monday June 08, 2009 @05:37PM (#648052)

I wonder how long we'll still have CD/DVD drives. I've used mine maybe twice :/ Would much rather just have a bigger battery there TBH.

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Re:Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices by pj on Monday June 08, 2009 @07:46PM (#648251)

Yeah, I used my cdrom drive on my macbook pro about 3 times. Now I need it and it's broken. But I have .ISO's and I can just mount those as a drive, so really the drives are obsolete already.

I'd rather see that space dedicated to horsepower.

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Re:Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices by DLWormwood on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @08:33AM (#648929)

Then gripe to Steve Jobs (or whomever), he was the one who convinced Apple engineers to remove the dual hotswap bays that used to be standard on the PowerBook line around the time of the marketing transition to "MacBook." A user used to be able to forgo a optical drive to have a second battery installed...

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Re:Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices by ori_b on Monday June 08, 2009 @07:08PM (#648194)

My current laptop (Fujitsu T2010 tablet) doesn't have one. The only time I missed it was for installing Linux - I had to borrow a USB drive from a friend.

Next time I'll probably just figure out how to put the installer on a USB key.

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