What are you talking about? A USB storage drive doesn't play DVDs or CDs...
On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Aron Spencer wrote: > Considering that USB drives are cheap and often have significantly greater > capacity than optical drives (not to mention usually being faster), I > actually don't see this as a very big deal. > As far as the monitor goes, I think the added capability of Thunderbolt is > work the price of the adapter. > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > >> A friend of mine was finally persuaded (by me) to go ahead and buy a new Mac >> mini to replace his Win/PC tower, thinking he could reuse his existing >> external drives, keyboard, mouse & monitor. He didn't notice till he got it >> home that Apple removed the Superdrive from the new Mac mini! He called me >> up asking WTF? I didn't realize it either. An external Superdrive is $79 >> extra. On top of that, they also replaced the monitor connector with a >> Thunderbolt socket. So he went back and returned it. Fortunately they had >> one of the previous models still in stock so he bought that instead, and is >> happy with it. >> >> What is Apple thinking -- that everyone's integrated into the iCloud >> already? I thought the mini was in some part for "switchers", but to come >> without even an optical drive is a deal killer. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
