“In its new product announcement last week, Apple rolled out a lot of new features – including significantly faster processers and greater expandability for its Macbook Air and Mac Mini lineups,” Jeff Ward-Bailey reports for The Christian Science Monitor. “But Cupertino also quietly took something out of its lineup (besides the vanilla Macbook, that is): the Mac Mini is now missing its DVD drive.”
“The Macbook Air has never had an optical drive, and now that the Mini’s has disappeared as well, it likely indicates that the company is eyeing a future in which media doesn’t come on a DVD – or a CD-ROM or Blu-Ray disc, for that matter,” Ward-Bailey reports. “This isn’t the first time Apple’s been in this position, either. Back in 1998, the company introduced the original iMac without a floppy drive, pulling the plug on a technology that was still considered standard. (In hindsight, that was probably a good call, though Apple’s move caused quite an outcry at the time.)”
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Ward-Bailey reports, “For a lot of people, though, it really is too soon to ditch the discs. Let’s assume that Apple will continue to remove optical drives throughout its laptop and desktop lines, as it did with the floppy drive: this is probably an unwelcome scenario to anyone hoping to watch a DVD on an airplane.”
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Ward-Bailey reports, “It’s worth pointing out that when Lion, the [latest] iteration of the Mac OS X operating system, arrives in a physical format in August (it’s download-only for now) it’ll be on a USB stick, not a disc.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple leads. The rest of the world follows. As usual.
If you don’t want anything to change and can’t accept new ideas and/or methods of doing things, then you are not cut out to be a Mac user. Go get yourself an HP or a Dell or some other dime-a-dozen piece of crap and run Microsoft’s shiteous Windows on it and you’ll be comfortably at least 5 years behind us Mac users as always.
You can use your Premiere, you can scroll backwards because “that’s how we’ve always done it,” and you can feed antiquated, unnecessary plastic discs into your horrid PC until you end up, years later, doing things the way we Mac users are doing things today anyway. Better late than never, but just barely.
The status quo is shit and we have no patience for those who cling to it.
Spinning plastic physical media has been EOL’ed by Apple Inc. That means it is dead – sooner for the leading edge Mac users and later for the rest of the world’s PC followers.
This is not an ad, it’s a mission statement for Apple and Apple product users alike:
