objectwerks inc <[email protected]> squaked out on Tue 02-Aug-2011 10:41 > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:50 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> On Aug 1, 2011, at 17:48, Nathan Sims <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Optical drives in 2011 are a lot like floppy drives in 1997. Other than >> burning a backup of Lion, I've not used mine in about a year. >> >> For the very few people who need an optical drive, Apple offers one for a >> reasonable fee. > > > I do wish that Apple had included one model of the mini with an optical > drive, personally. I use a mini as a media center for the family and an > in-built optical drive is easier with little kids than a plugged in one and > we still get DVDs that we borrow and they want to watch. And I still buy > DVDs on sale. And until I get them ripped to my movies volume we use them > with the optical drive.
I don’t allow my kids NOW to handle discs, much less when they were little. Everything gets ripped to the hard drive with Handbrake. The slowest part of that process is feeding the discs to the drive. > I also use my Mac Pro optical drive often to rip new DVDs and I still buy > music on CD whenever I can (for the small amount I buy) and I am still > finding long lost music CDs of mine (misplaced in moves, etc) that I rip to > my iTunes volume. So I use the optical a lot. Well, if you have a computer with an optical drive you can rip the DVDs there with Handbrake. If you need to access a CD or DVD on your new mini an the other computer is a Mac, you can share the disc drive. > I do agree with the overall sentiment though that the optical drive is going > the way of the DoDo. I just think we are not quite that far along yet. So said a lot of people on 1997. Apple is going to be in front on this. -- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger." "And that which *does* kill us leaves us *dead*!" _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
