On 2011-08-01 17:48 , 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.
note that the price of the new model dropped by $100, wherase the price of the
external drive is $80; hmmmmmm... overall this is a nice an advantage for those
who don't need the drive
beyond that, for most purposes, the Thunderbolt port works just as the Mini
DisplayPort port did before; the exceptions won't be relevant to switchers
unless having the drive built-in is a big advantage for your friend (or he
needed to run 10.6), he just duped himself into a substantial downgrade
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