no cd drive in new macbook?

enri wrote:

It is not only about watching dvd. Almost all diagnostic imaging examinations are released on cd or DVD .

Apple Gives a very consistent platform to medical imaging software. It is a waste of reputation not to offer any more a cd drive.

A cd drive is offered, internally on the non-retina and externally on the retina.

I can see everyones point on here yeah CD's arent in use that much any more and yeah DVDs can be streamed and downloaded from numerous website and from the use of apps. However what about all of them old CDs and DVDs that you have lying round your house that you would like to watch and rip on to your brand new MAC Book.

What about when you want to burn a DVD or Even install a game which you have brought ? How are you meant to get them on your MAC Book go out and buy a external Cd Drive after paying £1800 on a shiny new laptop.

Wheres the sense in that?

Where is the sense in buying a laptop without a drive if you need access to cd/dvd?, buy the external drive or a different MacBook.

There is no need for an integrated optical drive any longer. If you must use optical media, then get the external superdrive for $79. Watching DVD movies on your computer? Why? Anytime I watch a movie, I'm watching it on my 70" TV with the PS3 playing either blu-ray, DVD or more often; Netflix or Xfinity On Demand. When I travel, I watch movies on my iPad. Soon there will be no optical drives on ANY laptops, because they simply are not needed. For music, I import my CD's using the external drive one time per album, then I mark the disc as imported on the case with a sharpie. The CD's now sit in a box in the basement, ready to be sold on Craigslist or pitched. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

You do realize that if you sell the CDs you are supposed to take the songs off your computer/iPod/music player, right? Yeah, I know, common practice is to keep them, but legally you have no rights to that music if you do. Just sayin'...

I totally get it... CD/DVDs ARE going away. I guess my only concern is that the rest of the business world may not be as readily capable of integrating their systems to handle a strictly download/upload/cloud-based model. The only example I have pertains to my specific issue (and I'm totally aware that Apple is NOT basing their business decisions on MY needs;-)

I'm a sports and entertainment photographer and I thought that this latest technology was made for professions closer to mine. Therefore, the new retina display is ideal. However, many of my college teams prefer that I burn them a copy of my edited images immediately following events. A lot of my business also comes from the parents of these athletes, who know very little about FTP servers, etc.

Again, I know my examples are specific to ME and realize that there are options (i.e. purchase an external drive), but it would sure be nice to have the latest technology with the option of having the cd drive, and not having to worry about adding another piece of hardware to my already full camera/computer bag.

As it stands, I carry no more than my camera and laptop on the field. I currently shoot the event, run over to my laptop, insert my CF card in my 2 ounce card reader, edit, burn, eject, deliver. (CD is already waiting for me in the "internal" drive.) But I guess I'll need to change my workflow to include carrying the extra hardware, which for now is unfortunate. I would pay for the option!

Absolutely for the outside the US comment. I'm so glad someone mentioned that. Internationally, the playing feild is not level.

RuXTaR wrote:

What you guys ar ignorant to is quite a handfull of things:

1. Outside of the U.S. Netflix, Huliu, and other interweb luxuries are not available. So YES, I still watch DVD's

2. Outside of the U.S. a lot of countries still don't have iTunes available to them. So YES, I still need to put my music on from a CD. I KNOW RIGHT?! I'M SO BEHIND!! (I'm being sarcastic). Plus, a CD, is much better quality than whatever you can get on the internet.

3. I can understand no CD in a MacBook. But a MacBook pro?!! First, you need to install editing software (because in your country you cannot download online), second you need to be ready for on-the-fly projects, third, I want to burn a CD for a friend/ a Master for an artist/ a DVD for a client/ I have to carry around that external thingy and have no place to put it while working on the plane, train, bus, or whatever.

Someone said it's better than carying one around whether you need it or not.. seriously?! how heavy is it?! half a pound?! just take off your watch and you make up for the difference. How lazy can you be?! How heavy can it make it?!

I can't believe someone can look at a draw back and try to justify it. With the iPhone service problem they said people are holding it wrong. DVD's CD's Blurays, burning CD's, it's not of the past and will not become so anytime soon.

What Apple is trying to do is force everybody to get things on the App Store because it's cheaper than buying the external CDdrive, and in a lazy world which would be bothered to carry the built in CD drive around, they are the winners because we're such babies who want things NOW and don't want to wait for the hard copy.

Putting all the above aside.

Lets say I need to re-install my software after formatting for whatever problem, how do I do that? And yes, in the dreadful situation where I need windows for some awesome software that OSX does not support, how do I do that?

You would use the recovery partition to reinstall or repair OSX, and Boot Camp Assistant to download the drivers for Windows. Or just buy a different model of Mac, or buy the Superdrive.

What everyone seems to miss is that this isn't the first time Apple has done something like this... and guess what? Everyone survived. Apple dropped the floppy drive with the introduction of the iMac to much of the same criticism... Does anyone here still use floppies?

Floppies were used in cameras and computers. Most games, movies, and music are downloadable online.

My first computer was a Power Book 100 with an external floppy drive. Back to the roots?

Not everyone has an ultra broad band connection at home. It took me about a day to download Lion and, when it turned out to be buggy, the remote repair (took me a night to download) did not work. I missed the CD already.

There are one hundred reasons why I need a DVD drive: what if I want to watch a DVD or copy one I have shot myself? If I want to have the maps of my garmin edge 800 on my laptop I can only install it by CD. The download will put the map on the device and I always would have to carry it around. How will I copy my favorite tunes on CD to listen to it in the car?

Maybe one day won't need CD drives anymore, so far it is a MUST!!!

Recovery partition did not work and it took forever. Superdrive is not an option and looks like all models will be without CD drive in the near future.

That was not a very helpful comment!

Woldi wrote:

Recovery partition did not work and it took forever. Superdrive is not an option and looks like all models will be without CD drive in the near future.

That was not a very helpful comment!

Apple make 4 new models of MBP with Superdrive, buy one of them.

Here's the 15", and there is a 13" as well (2 of each)

Woldi wrote:

Recovery partition did not work and it took forever. Superdrive is not an option and looks like all models will be without CD drive in the near future.

That was not a very helpful comment!

If I encountered a situation where I needed to restore, I would use my time machine backup to do so. You simply have to backup your data - consider this mandantory. If the drive is dead, replace it if possible. If it is the newer solid-state drive, where the end user cannot replace, send back to Apple for repair, and then restore from your backup.