You don’t love me anymore?Before answering, listen to this: Seth Weintraub, columnist for Computerworld, wrote an article last week in which he presents, quite candidly, good reasons for the Apple line of notebooks to abandon optical media for good. That's right. No CDs, DVDs or "Bluuu-ray!" as removable memory devices, only SD cards. The physical space freed up, of course, could be very well used or simply "slim down" even more the laptops with an apple on the lid.
As there is no point on the Internet without a counterpoint, Thomas Fitzgerald has already tried to demystify the whole story with another article (by the way, very interesting: one of the points he addresses that only recently has legalized downloads passed other means of audio distribution). Long live the dialectic: as soon as interesting conclusions are reached!
We know that Apple is very fond of killing formats. Desktop PCs even today have floppy drives (which the IRS crazily loves), while Macs kicked this type of storage in the past century. The MacBook Air has already taken this path again, even with a super chic solution to parasitize the optical drive of any desktop or with an external drive that, come and go, looks like the sound of a science fiction film (too thin / too beautiful) , s!). And these options are only to be used once in a lifetime, when installing software
Now that the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBooks Pro have an SD card slot (which can even be used to boot the computer or as a disk for Time Machine to play with), the question to ask yourself is “why abandon optical media?”, but "why not?"
The Blu-ray punching bag is certainly a valid argument for filmmakers who want to use their Macs as a cinema projector, but let's face it: a 1080p resolution, IMHO, doesn't justify battery consumption, component heating and the fact that you be with a laser setting fire to a plastic disk spinning madly inside your MacBook.
Furthermore, anyone who LOVES cinema to the point of clearly seeing the difference between HD, full-HD, true-HD and whatever, has its dedicated player in a small room with a home theater Just for that is a display that supports level of detail in MacBooks Pro, present only in the 17 inch model. That this format appears on an iMac or even Mac mini, v l, but I think overkill in a laptop that can very well use the 32GB of SD cards, which, in detail, are _well_ smaller than a disk and do not drain the battery or have moving parts.
Honestly? I use _all_ my optical drive that, without blinking, I would exchange it for an extra HDD / SSD and buy the external drive for the few moments when I would need to aim lasers at disks spinning at insane speeds. And you? Would you abandon optical media in the name of something? Give your opinion in the comments!
