An optical drive is still lighter then a 2nd harddrive. And unlike a harddrive you can actually completely turn it off saving laptop battery life. You cannot turn off a harddrive.
I used my optical drive to install windows 7 and rip a movie from dvd once in a while. But other then that an optical drive is pretty useless nowadays. If the optical drive is a blue ray then it might be more useful
Audiophile is a bunch of baloney. A few months ago I decided to delete all my music and just keep a collection of lossless files. I loaded a them onto my ipod but recently I put some mp3 files on my ipod because I couldnt find a few tunes. And to be honest I virtually cannot hear the difference. Sometimes mp3s sound flatout better then lossless. You got these so called audiophile lossless albums recorded in 1970 or something with a DIY microphone build in a garage. These recordings just sound dull and thin but are so called high grade audiophile albums. Compare that to anything that is recorded beyond 1990.
Also bought Shure SE530 but compared to Koss KSC75 it just sounds like poop. Bought some cheap chinese IEMs for $10 before I had the shures and they sounded almost as good them. I dont have to tell you how expensive Shure is. I also bought a $10 portable headphone amp with a $30 interconnect because of recommendations on a certain forum specialized for these type of things but all it added is hiss and other crap. Good thing some other guy was stupid enough to buy these interconnect from me.
I am just going to buy a $200 dac/amplifier with $300 speakers as a home rig with cheap interconnects, ipod or laptop as source and a combination of lossless/lossy files. It doesnt make a difference if I pay $500 for interconnects or any thing else.. If you read reviews about the sonic T-amp you'll know that even these audiophiles agree that this amp ($80) beats other setups costing over $1000.
Apple invented everything in this world. Story goes that God created Adam and Eva. Well it was actually Apple that created them. Along with the entire universe.
Whats the point of having dedicated videocards in macbooks since the primary reason for dedicated vid cards is to play games. And Macbooks are not the ideal laptops to play games with.
Not trying to sound like a fanboy but why get this when you can get an ipod touch for cheaper? The ipod touch is a pocket PC that can do exactly the same things as the Spinn and more. Whereas the Spinn will never be more then a PMP.
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
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