[OSX-Users] Re: Mac mini - no DVD drive

[Chris Andrews]

On 21 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Philip Boulain <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 21/07/2011 15:09, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:
>> To do that, you first need a Mac with a DVD drive... ;)
>> (OK, I know, I already have plenty of those, but the principle still stands)
> 
> Not really. While a bit of a wind-up, the point does stand that DVD is yesterday's technology, so you use yesterday's technology to rip it. When I want to image a floppy disk for retro emulation shenanigans, I don't reach for my shiny new ultraportable laptop to do it---I go to the ollllld desktop.
> 
> As for Blu Ray, apparently Steve Jobs hates it. I don't blame him, since it involves JAVA.

"A bag of hurt."

I have a separate BD player, and I can see why His Steveness hates it - you have to put the disc in and go get a drink or take a slash whilst it spends a couple of minutes telling you you're a filthy pirate and then caching menus, graphics and Java.

Chris