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- wrenchone, on 01/03/2008, -0/+46So now we're speculating on the accessories for a speculative product?
- Wolfsoap, on 01/03/2008, -1/+25I know. I know. I know Apple may offer external optical drive with it's new sub-notebook.
Do you know how i know? 'Cos this is the third time its been on the frigging front page today. - lukas88, on 01/03/2008, -1/+20I know what would work even better, a USB port.
- wrenchone, on 01/03/2008, -1/+17I did all of those things, some several times, in the last month alone.
- eleven, on 01/03/2008, -2/+13Okay so what am I supposed to be excited about here... an external optical drive is big news?
- D3koy, on 01/03/2008, -1/+10I hear they are coming out with an AM/FM tuner, it's called the iEnjoylisteningtotheradioevenwithcommercials
(no I didn't) - pres2014, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8WHAT!!! You mean a computer without an optical drive might have an external optical drive!!! Goo God, what will they think of next.
- kent1146, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8No offense, but you are falling into the classic geek tunnel-vision of "If *I* don't want to use it, why would ANYBODY want to use it?" You gotta look at the big picture.
When you say "you"... you are referring to a hardcore geek subculture of Digg readers. Apple customers are far and wide, including people who have never heard of Digg, a torrent, or even the RIAA / MPAA. - Nick2632, on 01/03/2008, -1/+9So Apple MAY offer an external optical drive with the new sub-notebook that they MAY be releasing, according to a "new report".
Sounds pretty set in stone to me. - kidal25, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8Why don't we just wait for macworld? I'm sick of seeing all this stupid "what is going to happen at macworld" articles. Lets just wait and see and then write articles.
- iDiggIt42, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8Is anyone getting that deja vu feeling right now?
- D3koy, on 01/03/2008, -0/+7Netflix makes my DVD-drive worthwhile...Sure they have the online view, but it's not as good and the selection isn't there yet...
- JayKeaton, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5This has already been mentioned on the Digg front page quite a few times already :(
- zeiben, on 01/03/2008, -1/+6Le yawn
- notadiggtard, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4Me too.Anyway,everyone will have a larger machine to rip video etc.
- TheWorm, on 01/03/2008, -3/+7Buried as a quintuplicate.
(check my comment history and you'll see I buried the last carbon copy as a quadruplicate). - prolix21, on 01/03/2008, -1/+5how many times is this going to get posted today? woo external optical drive. i had an external optical drive on my 486 laptop
- inactive, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3today
yesterday
last week
any more questions? - serverdown, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3sorry that was a stupid comment
- max1018, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3Yeah... apparently. I love Apple as much as the next guy, but I would really laugh if no sub-notebook turned up, just an updated (thinner, etc) MacBook or some other Apple product. Saying that, it would make my MacBook feel obsolete all of a sudden...
Anyway, everybody calm down and wait a few more days for Steve to announce what he is going to announce. - banmaster, on 01/03/2008, -1/+4Of course! EVERY Apple product is designed to lock the customer into Apple's own 'ecosystem' at the exclusion of everything else!
- deadbaby, on 01/03/2008, -2/+4I have no problem dropping the optical drive. I almost never use mine and, when I do, it sounds like the Wright Brother's airplane taking off when it spins up the disk. The only concern I would have is the inability to reload OSX on the fly if something went horribly wrong and I didn't have an optical drive with me. For this they could include an SD card reader (or multi-reader) along with a stripped down version of Leopard on an SD card. (If you remove the PPC code it will fit on a 4GB stick)
- windohs, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2In other news.....Apple may offer external warranty with new sub-notebook
- cadmiumpaint, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2too many people suffer from what another Digger called "geek tunnel vision" just because you don't use it when you torrent stuff doesn't mean that its a useless component. A LARGE portion of the mac community is pro design/photo/music etc. and we all still use optical physical media. Just the pro photography and design community alone is full of thousands of people who back up every job/shoot with media not to mention what you physically send to the client. As a designer when you take something to print FTP isn't good enough for large print jobs. You have to bundle fonts and assets. I personally make 2-3 backups for every job. I know photographers who backup every shoot with several discs. Wedding/portrait photogs who include a DVD's instead of negs and the list goes on for days.
Also for those who create content, when you send things off to the copyright office for registration, you need to send them a disc with art or whatever on it.
Stop looking at things with such narrow minded perspectives. People use macs for lots of things besides internet and torrent-ing - rowlodge, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2you mean ron paul ?
- manitoba98xp, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Hmm...I'd be very interested to hear how you rip DVDs without a DVD drive.
- MacParrot, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Untrue, the latest iMacs have them as well as do the MacBook Pros I believe.
- inactive, on 01/03/2008, -1/+3Never heard of a flash drive?
- jsg7, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Firewire 800 would work fine for that. Pro Macs are basically the only computers that come with it right now anyway.
- HolyChimp, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I've got an old laptop that I use as an extra machine in LAN games sometimes. It's got an external drive, and I honestly hadn't used it since I put Windows on the thing. Last week we decided to fire up some Starcraft, and I had no CD drive. Had to burn an ISO and mount it with Daemon Tools.
Point is, you never use it until you need to use it, or something. - jsg7, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1OK then, but it's basically just Macs, right? And would Apple really mind selling a few extra external optical drives if someone wanted to buy one?
- h00ligan, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1wow, really going out on a limb with that prediction.
- joncarr, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Ahhh... the Duo. Another marvel of Apple innovation that went nowhere. I would love to see a modern version of the Duo, or any Apple docking station for that matter.
- marcushe, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Ah, right back to the PowerBook Duo days!
http://images.appleinsider.com/macbook-mini-070214 ... - colonelpanic, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I believe they are referring to the duodock series, which was a near bare bones notebook, but was very small for the time.
- flyingcatcircus, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2That is a brilliant idea. My mom would use the card for photos, and the nerds (me) would do as you suggested. Well done.
- atomofconsumpti, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1WELCOME TO THE FUTURE~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!
- deadbaby, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Sure there are. It's a computer. It is what you make it.
- MacParrot, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1or the Alamo?
- samuel514, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1***** ya
- atomofconsumpti, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2my thoughts exactly.
- cyberwiz01, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Actually I agree with you banmaster, I had a Toshiba M200 tablet PC at one time and it didn't have an internal optical drive. The drive attached via cable added a lot to desk clutter and was one more thing to keep in the bag. External drives != elegant.
- meatmcguffin, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3You plug the thing in when you need it, you have a smaller, thinner laptop when you don't. Seems pretty elegant to me
Try harder, troll - atomofconsumpti, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1i have the dell d430 and it doesn't have an optical drive. i have never needed it. though, i just use it for school, not as my primary computer.
- rowlodge, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1if it were at least as big as my current screen 14.5 then i would be used to that, just seems too small.
- Tippis, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I'd much rather see something like the Vaio TX or TZ -- if Sony can do it without sacrificing weight or size, surely Apple can too?
- keyo, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1SuperPort, nah it'd be iPort iPlug or some ***** :) .
- heystoopid, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1But then again is it any better then the old ultra lightweight versatile mobile Toshiba Portege P3 sold at the turn of the century , that be the question ?
- indiekiduk, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Not many Apple stories being submitted to Digg anymore. Where are people off to?
- GeneralKickass, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1A small detail on a new product from a computer manufacturer is hardly front page worthy IMHO. Buried as lame. Fcuk you Apple fanboys who digg up all Apple crap.
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