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Optical drives becoming obsolete?
kamuixtv99:
Nice to see Steve Job's spirit alive and kicking. Steve hates Blu-ray *google it*. Apple wants you to use Itunes they thought people these days deletes digital media (video/audio) after you're done with it. With the recent hit in Thailand I noticed most drives are inferior that's why I always use optical media.
revo:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on June 23, 2012, 11:34:34 AM ---I was watching the keynote WWDC 2012 (Apple event), now DONT START HATING ON APPLE.
But the new MacBook Pro, with new retina display. . .TBH it looks pretty amazing, but what caught my attention was what he said:
--- Quote from: not a real quote but something like this: ---If we want to truly be innovative, we have to discard the past and look at the future
--- End quote ---
now, if you remember Apple dropped support for the floppy 3 1/2 disk drives and Zip drives like 5 years earlier than Microsoft, cause apple knew it was a decaying technology. . .
Now they dropped the optical drives out of their top-notch laptop. . .
but I was thinking, blu-rays are relatively new so they would be the "new technology". . .but Apple is heading in a new direction where optical drives arent "crucial" anymore. . .
what do you think?
DONT HATE ON APPLE
LOVE & TOLERANCE!
--- End quote ---
Why wouldn't I hate apple ? The deserve it :D
Anyway
If I buy a movie I wan't it to be bluray (no exceptions)
I don't care for netflix or any other crap
But still you can't properly play bluray movies on OSX :D
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Saras on June 23, 2012, 12:01:47 PM ---Obsolete? No. Not usefull enough to justify the space in a notebook? Yes.
Manufacturers have a dilema to face, for 14-15 inch laptops. You either get one HDD/SSD and an ODD or two HDD's-HDD/SSD.
The latter option is gradually becoming quite a bit more favourable due to the existence of cheap USB3.0 16gb+ thumb drives. As optical discs can't really compete as a personal storage solution in either space, speed or convenience. The only thing it has for itself is cheap distribution of x and sadly, that's not enough.
Think about it, what would you yourself prefer today? An extra 120gig SSD, a 1TB HDD or an ODD? I know what I wouldn't pick. As the only time a disc was in this laptop was when I installed windows.
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This. And for those who still use optical drives, there are always external drives to plug into USB. They just don't get used frequently enough to justify the space that would be far better used by a second storage drive.
revo:
USB bluray drives are too slow and too expensive
vuzedome:
It's not really sensible to be running a BD external drive over USB. :P
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