The optical drive in my HP laptop broke a few months ago. I'm running Vista/Linux/OSX on triple boot. The only thing I would have used the optical drive for is installing the os's, but instead I adapted and booted from usb drives. I, for one, am very willing to get rid of my optical drive, and I think in the near future, you'll see there's no point in having one. Very innovative on Apple's part.
Well if you have to reload OSX, you simply go to the Apple store, buy the $99 USB drive, wait 5-7 business days for it to arrive. Connect it to the single USB port and hold down "C" while booting. See that wasn't so hard now was it.
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How exactly do you reload the OS without an optical drive? Am I the only one that doesn't see this as a practical laptop?
The optical drive in my HP laptop broke a few months ago. I'm running Vista/Linux/OSX on triple boot. The only thing I would have used the optical drive for is installing the os's, but instead I adapted and booted from usb drives. I, for one, am very willing to get rid of my optical drive, and I think in the near future, you'll see there's no point in having one. Very innovative on Apple's part.
Well if you have to reload OSX, you simply go to the Apple store, buy the $99 USB drive, wait 5-7 business days for it to arrive. Connect it to the single USB port and hold down "C" while booting. See that wasn't so hard now was it.
what about games that require you to have the disc in the drive to play it?
He's not using the apple BIOS. He just said he has a triple boot hackintosh. If it's pretty recent it should have a boot from USB option..
i don't remember the last time i had to reinstall my os, on several desktop machines so why would you need to do that on a laptop is beyond me
Did you read *any* of the article you commented on? It answers the exact question you are asking.