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

[Andrew Paul Landells]

To be fair, I already have an MBA DVD drive which I could repurpose (it's not like I ever use it on the air, short of reinstalling the thing)
And if Blu-ray ever does come along for the Mac, it'll simply be a case of swapping the drive for a BD-ROM instead.

I'd just have preferred it to be built-in. That's all, no biggie really :)

Regards,

On 21 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Philip Boulain 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.
> 
> -- 
> Phil

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