the macbook air has no cd drive?

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="-TheSecondSign-"]Wow.

So it's expensive AND it sucks?Cerussite

so what is the point of it then?

is there a market that does not a CD drive?

[QUOTE="shoeman12"]nope, no optical drive, bad tiny hard drive, can't add more ram, can't replace your own battery, and its a mac. you pay a couple thousand when you could get a windows based laptop that you can customize that has much better specs for a fraction of the cost.Oborozukiyo

new type of computer?? its a laptop.. only not nearly as good and costs more.

[QUOTE="-TheSecondSign-"]Wow.

So it's expensive AND it sucks?SolidSnake35

[QUOTE="shoeman12"]nope, no optical drive, bad tiny hard drive, can't add more ram, can't replace your own battery, and its a mac. you pay a couple thousand when you could get a windows based laptop that you can customize that has much better specs for a fraction of the cost.Oborozukiyo

omg your sig is killin my brain

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="-TheSecondSign-"]Wow.

So it's expensive AND it sucks?xaos

[QUOTE="-TheSecondSign-"]Wow.

So it's expensive AND it sucks?SolidSnake35

That's great. But for what they're saying the price is(1700$) and to have that stuff removed so you can make it tinier ain't cutting it. I don't have to carry a laptop around and I never will. I'll never have the kind of job where I need to carry a laptop around, so the Air being nice and comfy for a long walk with a laptop...is...yeah....

Besides, it sounds like a gimped computer all around. Pass.

new type of computer?? its a laptop.. only not nearly as good and costs more.muppet1010

but it looks cool! Does anyone know if they are discontinuing their macbook for this lame thing?-Sniper99-

[QUOTE="shoeman12"]nope, no optical drive, bad tiny hard drive, can't add more ram, can't replace your own battery, and its a mac. you pay a couple thousand when you could get a windows based laptop that you can customize that has much better specs for a fraction of the cost.Oborozukiyo

Adding the solid-state harddrive costs an additional $1000.

Adding the solid-state harddrive costs an additional $1000.Velocitas8

[QUOTE="Velocitas8"]Adding the solid-state harddrive costs an additional $1000.Oborozukiyo

Actually, I was a bit surprised.

Because it's probably the only component on the damn thing that isn't obscenely overpriced when compared to equivalent hardware currently on the market. A 64GB SSD averages quite a bit more than $1000 from what I've seen.

[QUOTE="stevenk4k5"][QUOTE="Greenwhitegreen"]

[QUOTE="Kritical_Strike"]It installes software from another Mac. That's right, you are pretty much required to have another MAC around, just to have the Air book. No thanks.Greenwhitegreen

Not just a Mac...a PC that has wireless as well.

Whoopty doo. The MacBook Air is still rubbish.

Its not rubbish...its just not to your taste!

I thought they were crazy when they removed floppy drives from computers, but I was wrong. I'm more disappointed by the removal of firewire from the Mac Book Air than optical drives.swamprat_basic

thats because there were flash drives to replace floppys. what is there to replace optical discs?

[QUOTE="swamprat_basic"]I thought they were crazy when they removed floppy drives from computers, but I was wrong. I'm more disappointed by the removal of firewire from the Mac Book Air than optical drives.shoeman12

thats because there were flash drives to replace floppys. what is there to replace optical discs?

Downloads.

It doesn't have a CD drive because it's meant to be an ultra-portable notebook. People who choose portability as the number one criteria for their computer are likely to value portable media as well, like USB thumb drives or, heck, the Internet. This isn't the kind of computer that peope who lug around a lot of CDs are going to consider buying.

That said, I still think it's lame.

Just so you know the optical drive is available as an add-on via USB for $99.rocket9434

It only has a single USB port. Have an external HDD? An optical mouse? Flash memory? You'd be plugging/unplugging these things constantly.

Having to carry around USB peripherals for optical drive functions totally defeats the purpose of the Air being lightweight in the first place. Sacrificing the most basic of computer hardware components for the sake of being "lightweight" is ridiculous. Especially with a device that costs so much.

[QUOTE="rocket9434"]Just so you know the optical drive is available as an add-on via USB for $99.Velocitas8

It only has a single USB port. Have an external HDD? An optical mouse? Flash memory? You'd be plugging/unplugging these things constantly.

Having to carry around USB peripherals for optical drive functions totally defeats the purpose of the Air being lightweight in the first place. Sacrificing the most basic of computer hardware components for the sake of being "lightweight" is ridiculous. Especially with a device that costs so much.

A USB hub will allow them to attach multiple devices when they are home. The computer has not been designed for people who use all of those peripherals on a daily basis. The computer weighs next to nothing. Students and businessmen can take it with them and use word processing, excel, etc. just fine.

[QUOTE="-Sniper99-"]but it looks cool! Does anyone know if they are discontinuing their macbook for this lame thing?SolidSnake35

Steve decided optical drives are not cool anymore, accept it.duxup

A USB hub will allow them to attach multiple devices when they are home. The computer has not been designed for people who use all of those peripherals on a daily basis. The computer weighs next to nothing. Students and businessmen can take it with them and use word processing, excel, etc. just fine. swamprat_basic

A businessman? Maybe. But Apple doesn't cater to this crowd, so it's unlikely.

A student? They'd probably go for something cheaper with more features. Espcially if they're using it as a desktop replacement.

Most notebooks are just as portable as the Air, they merely weigh a couple extra pounds. It's not like you're lugging around 20 pounds or something..notebooks are they're extremely portable and light as it is. Air's shaving off of 1 or 2 pounds at the sacrifice of so many features is completely unecessary.

Get a normal, fully-featured notebook. As an added bonus, most other notebooks won't snap in half when your cat jumps on them. Want a portable Mac? Go with the Macbook Pro. Nobody is going to buy an Air because nobody needs one.