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
