No DVD drive in new iMac ???

Your reply seeemed like you were arguing with me which I found a bit funny.

No, that wasnt the case at all, I was arguing for your point actually 😁

I was mostly addressing the Zbern person.

I guess I missed that.

You Apple juice drinkers are more than a bit funny. Optical drive technology has advanced to the point where they will function for years without a problem. Here's an HP optical drive with a MTBF of 120,000 hours.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12843_na/12843_na.pdf

Zbernie, I have (counting) including the tower replicators, 34 DVD burners here, they are incredibly reliable this is true.

The point, due to lack of investigation on you part, that you have missed entirely, is that the Superdrive is a slot loading drive........

1. meaning cleaning the laser diode lens is impossible for the common user, .....however this is not a mechanical failure ,but nevertheless cannot be cleaned by users.

2. Additionally, having burned more blank DVD than anyone youll meet, I can tell you that users have / do/ will complain that a DVD burner is defective when in fact its the huge amount of low grade BLANK MEDIA that is at issue. low grade DVD blanks have about a 8 to 10% reject rate.

3. Also the slot loader has several MORE moving parts than a tray loading DVD player / burner.

4. All these collective facts combined with , now, very low need / use of DVD for commercial media Audio / Video / Software, is the premise for the removal of the DVD Superdrive from the Imac.

5. Additionally it could not fit in the slim Imac (newer) chassis.

6. also externally now, the Superdrive doesnt require the Imac be serviced, rather only the Superdrive, ....very logical.

Suggest you consider the logic of 1 thru 6,

Peace 😊

I can't seem to be able to stop my computer from sending me emails on this thread. At worst, I'm getting at least twenty a day, many from the same complainers...

(Crap, I just got another one.)

...Okay. I'm stuck getting emails on this thread every day for the rest of my life. In the meantime, guys, let's come up with better lines, or better reasons.

Please.

Hi Plotinus, note that zB2 does not deal in fact, please do not introduce any.

Thanks.

Modern, internal optical drives are extrmely reliable. Wake up to the fact that the real reason that Apple removed the optical drive, and placed all of the USB ports and card slots in rear of the iMac, is to make it more difficult for consumers to utilize external media. Apple is pushing consumers to purchase content from them online. The majority of the people I've conversed with could care less how thin the new iMac is, it still looks the same from the front!

Again, this is all a ploy to push the consumer to purchase content online from Apple.

😁😁😁

Welcome back zB2

You're the one who lives in an apple fantasy world.

And you're just visiting

Welcome back zB2

Dupe

C'mon, guys...an admin is going to get angry..

Oh, I just realized. One of you IS an admin. I'm doomed.

Modern, internal optical drives are extrmely reliable. Wake up to the fact that the real reason that Apple removed the optical drive, and placed all of the USB ports and card slots in rear of the iMac, is to make it more difficult for consumers to utilize external media. Apple is pushing consumers to purchase content from them online. The majority of the people I've conversed with could care less how thin the new iMac is, it still looks the same from the front!

Again, this is all a ploy to push the consumer to purchase content online from Apple.

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What he said.

It's not about heat or geometry. It's about control.

When zB2 says that it's very funny, wannabee's are less funny, and less original.