[Klug-general] ultra thin Apple Notebooks

[Karl Buckland]

George Prowse wrote:
> 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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I think I use my laptop's optical drive more for burning than anything 
else, since I no longer have a desktop PC. I can echo the sentiment of 
others though - other than burning, I barely use it.