unwiredview.com— Apple has an idea of how to make your ultraportable Mac Book much thinner and smaller. Let's put the Optical Disc Drive on the bottom of the notebook. And it isn't as stupid as it sounds.
Jan 25, 2007View in Crawl 4
People might say, "what about loading all my CDs?", but likelihood is that people have ripped them on their desktop or previous computer already. I agree with the idea that the CD drive doesn't need to be accessed that much - especially in a laptop.
Im pretty sure Jobs wont change Apples way of ease of use for a small design change to current 13" Macbooks...but with rumors of an ultra small Pro model I think it would work.
I'm ready to go the way of floppy drives on the original iMac (exclusively by firewire or USB) before I'm ready to opt for flipping my computer over every time I want to load a CD. Okay Apple, you make a point, the optical drive takes up a lot of room and I don't use it very often. You'd like to shrink the form factor. I understand. Why not just give me an external drive and a firewire cable and I'll be on my way. Get it out of my machine if it's that much a pain in the butt for you and for me.
Sorry, I can't see it happening. Apple will not sacrifice ease of use just to make a smaller MacBook. Regardless whether most users don't use a cd/dvd drive very often, they wouldn't slap a drive on the bottom just as a token gesture. I think they would rather go for an external drive than this idea (that's my opinion anyway!)
karmavsJan 26, 2007
It'd be a good idea if it were behind the screen - (but that'd probably make the computer thicker, not thinner)
metalundershockJan 26, 2007
I always thought the idea was to get away from moving parts in a machine for durability purposes, hence Apple Inc.'s rumored hybrid solid state drive.
tracydangerJan 26, 2007
People might say, "what about loading all my CDs?", but likelihood is that people have ripped them on their desktop or previous computer already. I agree with the idea that the CD drive doesn't need to be accessed that much - especially in a laptop.
tictacatakJan 26, 2007
Im pretty sure Jobs wont change Apples way of ease of use for a small design change to current 13" Macbooks...but with rumors of an ultra small Pro model I think it would work.
tjpeopleJan 26, 2007
As mentioned before Guess what its basically allready been done. Samsung X1 (which i own) has the drive on the top (much better than the bottom! this mean its really really thin).<a class="user" href="http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/840/0830notebookviewgs6.jpg">http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/840/0830notebookviewgs6.jpg</a>
chesterpoopJan 28, 2007
I'm ready to go the way of floppy drives on the original iMac (exclusively by firewire or USB) before I'm ready to opt for flipping my computer over every time I want to load a CD. Okay Apple, you make a point, the optical drive takes up a lot of room and I don't use it very often. You'd like to shrink the form factor. I understand. Why not just give me an external drive and a firewire cable and I'll be on my way. Get it out of my machine if it's that much a pain in the butt for you and for me.
mikewhalleyJan 29, 2007
Sorry, I can't see it happening. Apple will not sacrifice ease of use just to make a smaller MacBook. Regardless whether most users don't use a cd/dvd drive very often, they wouldn't slap a drive on the bottom just as a token gesture. I think they would rather go for an external drive than this idea (that's my opinion anyway!)