Q: No DVD drive in new iMac ???

Here's a comparison of 2012 Q1 and Q4 plus 2012 Q1.

Csound1 does not have a good grasp of reality.  The premature removal of the optical drive; The completely inconvenient placement of the SD slot on the back of the iMac; Not one conveniently place USB port -- Have many people wondering what was Apple thinking?

As for Mac sales being strong, really?

Apple blames 17% drop in Mac sales on iMac supply constraintshttp://appleinsider.com/articles/13/01/23/apple-blames-1q-imac-supply-constraint s-on-17-drop-in-mac-sales

iMac sales slow in April - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/iMac-sales-slow-in-April/2100-1040_3-226165.html

Csound1 does not have a good grasp of reality.  The premature removal of the optical drive; The completely inconvenient placement of the SD slot on the back of the iMac; Not one conveniently place USB port -- Have many people wondering what was Apple thinking?

As for Mac sales being strong, really?

Apple blames 17% drop in Mac sales on iMac supply constraintshttp://appleinsider.com/articles/13/01/23/apple-blames-1q-imac-supply-constraint s-on-17-drop-in-mac-sales

iMac sales slow in April - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/iMac-sales-slow-in-April/2100-1040_3-226165.html

What the Heck Happened to Apple's PC Sales? | InvestorPlace

http://investorplace.com/2013/01/what-the-heck-happened-to-apples-pc-sales/

You're repeating yourself zB, feeling dizzy?

zBernie2 wrote:

 

 

As for Mac sales being strong, really?

Yup, just look at how bad it is. Up 20 mill over last quarter, awful.

I bought my imac 24 inch a few weeks ago and I am not one bit mad it didn't come with a CD burner. I just got the super drive and it works just as good if not better. If the drive goes bad then I can just get another one and keep going. If it was in the computer and it goes bad you have to bring it in and get it repaired. Besides not much new software is coming out on DVD anymore so why would you need one.

Csound likes to quote total sales figures to cover up slumping Mac sales. Apple is making it's money of pads and phones, not macs.

Not good news then for people who want to use a computer for a serious application then.

i can't do CAD or aperture on an iPad Or a IPhone there not the same beast at all.

So you are saying Apple will eventually move into iPad and iPhone, and forget there production of computers altogether somehow I do not think so it would be totally fool hardy.

I think you will find companies and individuals are cost cutting on new Computer purchases, replacing their systems or Computers because there is a global financial crises and there are many countries in the world you need to sell to.

Small things change people’s perceptions. Like entering the Apple store and finding out you will have to find the extra money for an optical drive in your budget if they want to add there CD collection to iTunes or perhaps watch a DVD on the computer screen not everyone is into streaming.

Yes you can go and bye a PC but is the point, Apple want to win over converts to Apple in addition to the customers they already have, is this not how you expand your following and make money and increase your share values.

markets can move very quickly and what is good one day will be scrap the next.

I think Apple is slowly trying to vacate the pro market without doing too much damage to their mobile line. When they think the mobile line can take over enough of the consumer programs with printshop, imovie, iphoto type warm fuzzy editing the desktop line will go away. They already killed Shake, Aperture hasn't got a makeover for ages. The macbook pro 17 that on the road editors used is gone. The macpro itself has been lingering in limbo for over 3 years, doesn't even have thunderbolt. Apple dosen't show up at any professional trade-shows anymore. Missing at NAB, WPPI, etc. Course the new pay for content model is not something that fits in with the pro world. Pros make content, mobile consumes content. If you want people visiting your app-store or your itunes store you want machines with limited capability that can only play media which equals purchases. Otherwise, people spend too much time being self reliant and not spending on continually renewing content.

If you have an optical drive you can watch commercial productions or create your own. That doesn't bring you to the itunes store to spend money. Apple cuts your cord, you depend on them for content.

Actually Apple is simply moving to an erra where items are mostly served online.  You can easily add a Superdrive to your system for under a 100 bucks to solve this issue.

Also I read where someone wrote you can not attach a firewire to the new iMac as well.  This is completly incorrect.  Apple new Thunderbolt connection has adapters for firewire.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapto r?fnode=51

I LOVE my iMac and plan on getting a MacBook Pro...

Hope this helps!!

Wes -

WBeck71 wrote:

 

Actually Apple is simply moving to an erra where items are mostly served online.  You can easily add a Superdrive to your system for under a 100 bucks to solve this issue.

You can add any dvd drive you like, for less than $30, that's all we are talking about, makes me wonder about all these 'professionals' who can't handle $30.

Of course they want it online... that is more money for them. Instead of a "pay once" model, now you pay every time you use. Instead of buying a 500 gig drive for $50 and storing your datat on that for 5 years or so you now pay Apple $100 per year ($500 for 5 years) to store 55 gig. No wonder the economy is in such bad shape. People can't figure out when they are getting hosed.

When Apple really wants you to quit using that optical drive they will just pull the code away form you. They are doing it in small bites right now... idvd - gone, dvd studio pro - gone, internal optical drive - gone. Give it a year or two and if you create content you will have to do it with another machine from another company. But you will have your touch toys.

You can avoid that by spending $25 on an external drive, much cheaper don't you think?

Yes I do get that and I understand they are moving into mostly served online and not wanting to burn anymore. It's just if you get a backup drive it's still crashing and you lose all your family photos and music ect. Yes you can get an online backup but there is still people that want to burn and give out family photos on Dvd or what ever.It's not about the money of buying an added drive either I just hate to have to have another machine hanging around. I have wireless machines and three external drives and now an optical drive. I would just love it to go back in my mac so it's less machines around.Yes I do love that mac is the guys that move forward but I believe sometimes it just to fast and I do believe there will be a time you won't be able to buy dvd's or cd's. But until they can make a external drive that won't crash people just don't trust not having a hard copy of there thing's. It's sad that so many people lose all there family photos in a crash and in the old day's only a house fire would do that. Just remember if your home were on fire what is the first thing you grabe. Your family photos.........

As always, you're being obtuse. This isn't and never was about 'All you have to do is spend $30!'. It's about the faux paus of Apple killing off an option that clearly is still needed by over half the desk top users. So, by your own admission, the iMac is no longer an 'all in one' but a 'most in one' computer. The individual(s) who made the ultimate decision to remove this optical drive had a serious brain fart coupled with a bad case of losing touch with the customer's needs. You're happy yours doesn't have one. Great! Congratulations! But how many people can honestly answer that they would NOT have bought an iMac because it DID have an optical drive? It would simply be an option you would not use. It's not like the machine became $30 to $50 cheaper because of the missing optical drive.

If you have to make an excuse for a product's lack of feature(s), then it's obviously a mistake the feature is missing to begin with.

Saturday, I visited the Apple Store at Bridgestreet in Huntsville. I watched in amusement as the few who did visit the lonely iMac table look for the CD slot. One lady asked about it and was told it was 'eliminated' in favor of more reliable methods of data storage. She wasn't interested and promptly walked over to the laptops. I found the separate optical drives for sale on the shelf. But, some people are not interested in a computer that was designed to remove desk top clutter ultimately creating it by lack of an option.

You ignore the people who have written in, including the original poster, and then make excuses for the product. Why are you making excuses for Apple?