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The thing is, it's $130, but since the unibody MB and MBPs use the SATA interface for their optical drive, you can actually splice together a solution for under $10. I haven't done it just because I'm lazy and non-crafty, but I have a feeling this thing is grossly overpriced...]]>Feb 23rd 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 23rd 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 23rd 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/
If I owned one, I'd put a 60-120GB fast SSD (like an OCZ Vertex or Intel X25) in the main slot to take advantage of SATA and then a ~500GB 2.5" drive in the CD slot..]]>Feb 23rd 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/
I'd hate to buy a $3000 laptop knowing full well it doesn't even have the latest technology (Blu Ray, among other things).]]>Feb 23rd 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/B) You and twenty-three other people care about having battery-sucking Blu-Ray on a laptop
C) You are obviously a troll. STFU]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 23rd 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/B) Well us 24 people are going to take our business elsewhere then :) Please tell me why spending much money on a computer with outdated technology is a GOOD thing. (I don't care about how "battery sucking" it is, it's a given that all optical drives use a lot of power).
C) Thanks for calling me a troll. I see you have nothing else to say so I can assume your argument is quite weak. ]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 23rd 2009 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 24th 2009 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 23rd 2009 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/
So all you naysayers out there, YES Apple did it first. It just didn't work all that well back then because it made the laptop friggin huge, and Apple steered towards size-reduction in the next model, the Aluminum G4. Which was the first sub one-inch full featured laptop, another Apple first.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/Feb 23rd 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/mces-optibay-exchanges-unibody-macbook-optical-drive-for-hdd/
http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-list.pl?template=EN&mdl=PCGXG9

But who cares if Sony actually pioneered it, Apple had it back then, Lenovo has it now, or if PATA on an older MBP is slower than SATA. The point of the article is it is available now for the unibody MB/MBP, and if you have one of those, you can now do it too.

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