You can already buy a MacBook which has the optical drive and is slightly thicker and heavier, not to mention less expensive.
I still remember the floppy disc, and how Apple was the first to drop it from their computers. There were moans and groans from many, but it had been years since I had actually used a floppy disc. Never did miss the fool thing.
Does anyone know if this also comes in black? Some of the pix in the Apple Gallery have it in black ... but I only see the silver for sale.
Yeah, you’re still going to need an optical drive on your desktop (to get your existing collection into digital), but at this point an optical drive built into an ultraportable laptop is pointless.