I hope this doesn't signify the elimination of optical drives from all laptops as both I and my fiance use ours several times a week for watching Netflix DVDs.
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Chill, Scotty...I take back the "know" as I really wanted to say "felt". I still don't think there will be updates. The only indication we have is Gruber's blog sentence, which he hasn't confirmed is based on his sources, versus speculation.
99% of all US households have a television. The are over 300 million televisions in US households. Are there really that many of you out there using your notebook computers as TV/DVD combos to watch DVDs? I don't get that. That is not an ideal way to watch a movie by any stretch. It suffices on the road but in your home where you have two TVs, a DVD player, and a Blu-Ray player? I don't get it.
Optical drives, like optical media are going the way of the dinosaurs. Pardon the hyperbolic cliche. To those who say they would not like watching digital movies, who portend to be DVD purists, preferring to watch movies on DVD, I would ask how many of you prefer to listen to music on CDs? How many CDs have you purchased in the last year? Now, how many MP3s have you purchased in the last year? Like CDs went away in the last 10 years, so too, will DVDs go away in the next 5 years.
I for one look forward to the day, perhaps in the next year, when we see optical drives eliminated from notebooks.
I have a movie home cinema projector onto a 120" screen and yet I still watch most series and even a lot of movies directly on my 15" MBP 
It's just a lot more handy... And I also often pause to browse the internet for a bit or to chat with friends and then resume the movie a few mins later...
The only time I use the big screen really is when I'm doing a movie night with friends, but that doesn't happen nearly as often as me watching movies directly on my laptop.
It's just a lot more handy... And I also often pause to browse the internet for a bit or to chat with friends and then resume the movie a few mins later...
The only time I use the big screen really is when I'm doing a movie night with friends, but that doesn't happen nearly as often as me watching movies directly on my laptop.
We have a TV and a DVD player but honestly watching from our laps is way more convenient and cozier. I can;'t remember the last time we fired up those devices and we'll probably chuck them this month.
This has nothing to do with being an elitist purist. Until you can get everything in digital that you can on discs, including the extras, for the same price as disks then digital files are poor substitute. iTunes and netflix digital libraries pale in comparison to what you can get on disk.
geez Scotters - that's having a few bob each way, and then some on the nose, and then some for a place, just in case.
the Melbourne Cup is on in a tad over 2 weeks - you should enter the calcutta with $100 - you'll scoop the pool for sure with those hedged bets!
It seems Europe's largest electronics retailer has EOL'ed the Air already (or at least my local store) (Mediamarkt/saturn)).
Sales rep told me for every 200 Macbooks, they sold 1 Air.
Here's to hoping!
Sales rep told me for every 200 Macbooks, they sold 1 Air.
Here's to hoping!
Yeah, but if the retailers don't have any more stock - and can't get any more from the Manufacturer, they have to EOL it in their own systems, no?
Sure, it's just terminology. EOL is a term used on the production side of things while retailers usually use "discontinued" or "no longer available" or "not in stock" and they only use these terms if the Manufacturer had communicated that they'd ended production of the product in question.
What I meant was that it would be unlikely that the retailer would know (at this stage) if the Air had indeed reached the end of its production run (Apple wouldn't want this information known, for obvious reasons), they would just know that they were unable to get more stock. Then, much like what goes on on this forum, they would take this bit of information and run with it.
And that is but one way in which (Mac)Rumors are started.
I think Apple will develop an App store for OSX, you won’t need physical media in the future. Or/and as others have said using SD cards.
All hell would break loose on the internet boards, but I would welcome that change.
zzzz....zzzz....blu ray external drive for all macbooks...zzz...wha?! I must have been dreaming!
Not that I disagree: I do think streaming is the future for most stuff. However, there will always be space for blu ray. Not everyone can stream over reliable internet, and wont be for a while. So cheap DVDs and Blu ray are here to stay. Not to mention that half the streaming places don't even give real 1080p 5.1 uncompressed transfers. Not to mention for streaming you still have to wait for buffers etc
I'll probably stream TV shows and the latest throw away "movies". But my favorites will always be on blu ray.
Well my apple store is back to full stock of them again
Went there on Sunday and yep two rows full of them whereas before there were maybe a few it definitely looks that they've been restocked
Went there on Sunday and yep two rows full of them whereas before there were maybe a few it definitely looks that they've been restocked
Nope. I sure don't want it in my 17" MBP. Better use the space for something else.