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Re:Why Apple's new laptop is basically useless by projectileboy on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @12:56AM (#99108)
I've had the exact same experience. When I read that the MacBook Air didn't have an optical drive, my first reaction was "WTF?", but then I counted how many times I've needed mine, and it turned out to be zero.
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Re:Why Apple's new laptop is basically useless by axod on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @04:22AM (#99151)
My reaction was: "fantastic news! No more irritating seek noises every damn time my macbook starts! No more tainted region coding infection! No more useless thing I never use anyway!"

Great news.

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Re:Why Apple's new laptop is basically useless by rms on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @04:30AM (#99153)
Been using a 12" laptop without an optical drive for about a year now. I only missed it when I wanted to finally install Linux about a month ago. I couldn't get it to work from a bootable USB drive so I ended up borrowing a friend's external CD drive. Glad to be rid of Windows, even if the fonts aren't very good. I'd kill for the equivalent of Windows standard font smoothing in Linux.
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