For transferring data, of course. On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Nathan Sims wrote:
> 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
