[Klug-general] ultra thin Apple Notebooks

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 11:46:22 GMT 2008


Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:23 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>> Alan Pope wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:59:23AM +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>>>> Who would buy one without a CD/DVD player? Weird...
>>>>
>>> Me. My eee has no optical drive and I dont miss it. 
>> Are you trying to tell me you have never wanted to use something that is 
>> on CD since getting it?
> 
> Come to think of it, I've only used the dvd drive on my macbook for
> installing leopard and fedora, and hacking on microsoft office using
> wine and burning off a couple of rescue CDs when various machines have
> gone to the dogs. All of this can be done with a USB stick, so it goes
> to show optical drives are generally as important as they once were...
> Still I think its an important feature for consumers to have, hacks like
> me just do whatever's fastest rather than easiest so I don't think my
> habits count.
> 
> K,
> 
I quite often burn disks whether they are new alpha versions of software 
or music for friends. Also my DVD player (to the tv, not in the 
computer) plays DIVX movies and stuff so i burn those and watch them on 
a full size tv instead of a computer screen



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