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Old Oct 25, 2012 | 7:29 pm
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Originally Posted by MAN Pax
Buried in the iPad Mini story last night was the revelation that new Macs would no longer have a DVD drive. Apple were (eventually) right about the Floppy, but have they missed the point with the DVD?
None of my biz ultra-light laptops for the past 7-8 years have come with an optical drive of any sort! I had no idea Macs still had them.

Originally Posted by cordelli
Just because something is no longer shipped as standard equipment, but instead as a pricey add on doesn't mean that it's dead. It just means they found a better way to make money off of it.
Bingo.
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