[tacticalogic]

DVD failure: MacBooks have not had an optical drive since 2012. No drive to fail or repair.

Is that really something to brag about?

[Swordmaker]

Is that really something to brag about?

Does anyone actually NEED to carry around the weight of a DVD/BluRay player in a portable computer when using one is now pretty infrequent?

In fact the vast majority of users have little to zero use for an optical drive that requires it to be built into the computer. If, one very occasionally needs one, you buy an external optical drive for that occasional use instead of carrying one around with you at all times.

Even in my office, where we produce numerous radiological images weekly, we only needed to use an optical drive ONCE in the past two years! Everything else was handled via Internet transfer or with a Flash memory drive. Optical disks are the technology of the past and no longer necessary on portable computers. They are obsolete.

[zeugma]

 

DVD failure: MacBooks have not had an optical drive since 2012. No drive to fail or repair.

Is that really something to brag about?

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LOL. Yeah, that's one of the few things I don't like about them. Personally, I like having a DVD drive available. Makes it easier to share such things as pictures and stuff with folk without uploading it somewhere else. It's one of those things that's a personal preference things. It's the primary reason I use a Note8" tablet rather than an iPad or iPad Mini. My wife passed a couple of months ago, and I could easily repurpose her iPad mini to my own use, but it's not really in the cards because it's not really what I need. It will probably be given to one of the nephews once i get around to wiping it. That's not saying that there is anything actually wrong with it. It's actually a nice bit of kit, but I like having the card slot on my Note even if I don't really use it much now that I've got an SSH server installed on it.

Some folks are going to be OK with haing an external DVD, some won't. If I recall correctly, Apple was also the first major company to abandon the floppy drive. At the time, it was a pretty big deal, but other tech was there to make it not such a big loss.

As you can tell I'm a bit ambivalent about it all. I like Apple products, but don't use them (except a phone) myself because I prefer Linux.

 

DVD failure: MacBooks have not had an optical drive since 2012. No drive to fail or repair.

Is that really something to brag about?

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LOL. Yeah, that's one of the few things I don't like about them. Personally, I like having a DVD drive available. Makes it easier to share such things as pictures and stuff with folk without uploading it somewhere else. It's one of those things that's a personal preference things. It's the primary reason I use a Note8" tablet rather than an iPad or iPad Mini. My wife passed a couple of months ago, and I could easily repurpose her iPad mini to my own use, but it's not really in the cards because it's not really what I need. It will probably be given to one of the nephews once i get around to wiping it. That's not saying that there is anything actually wrong with it. It's actually a nice bit of kit, but I like having the card slot on my Note even if I don't really use it much now that I've got an SSH server installed on it.

Some folks are going to be OK with haing an external DVD, some won't. If I recall correctly, Apple was also the first major company to abandon the floppy drive. At the time, it was a pretty big deal, but other tech was there to make it not such a big loss.

As you can tell I'm a bit ambivalent about it all. I like Apple products, but don't use them (except a phone) myself because I prefer Linux.

[Vermont Lt]

Honestly...I haven’t missed it. I thought I would. But I don’t.