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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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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.