Will the SD card kill the DVD in future MacBooks?
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Maybe a few years down the road this will be a reality. Right now I still like to watch DVDs on my MacBook Pro without the hassle of having to rip it first. Other than that I rarely use my DVD drive for anything. DVD-R's are too small to back anything up on.
I still find it ridiculous that Apple unloaded the Floppy drive. I have dozens of floppies, and I find it hard to imagine that more than 5 people out there have never had a need for a floppy drive! Yes, there are expensive 3rd party drives out there (like http://amzn.com/B000ALM3RC) at high prices, but I can't be bothered to carry around yet another item with my 17" MacBook Pro. It's bad enough that they make me carry around the stupid wall adapter.
So soon I'll have to carry around a DVD jukebox? Instead, Apple should be supporting the latest BlueRay standards instead of stealing another piece of valuable technology from our hands. Next time, I get a DELL.
Dude, I want a 5.25" drive in my next computer. You know how many floppies I still have from my old Apple ][?
Ha, ha, dude you crack me up. You better tell everyone else you had the sarcasm tag on before you get anymore thumbs down!
Dells don't have floppy drives either. And to install one will cost you that dreadfully expensive $19.99. Blu-Ray standard? Last time I checked Windows doesn't support that either. I've got a USB flash drive in my pocket that saves more data to it than a Blu-Ray, transfers data faster, and doesn't suffer from scratches or mechanical failure.
N00b Sauce.
N00b Sauce.
I'd easily trade the space taken up by the DVD drive to add battery capacity. Imagine having a Macbook Pro with 15 hours of battery life. I'm in.
Watch this image. I've made a virtual image.
http://kmug.co.kr/board/data/ipodqna/MBP.png
According to the image I've made, if Apple removes DVD drive and hires 1.8" SSD, they can expand the battery size up to TWICE !! This means, we can use the new MBP outdoor about 14~15 hours without AC Adapter.
I would rather ask for reducing the weight and size of my macbook with no extra battery.
I just cant imagine battery occupying more of both instead of the actual stuff.
Either case I wont need a DVD drive in a laptop at all!
I posted this on the source's site, but i may as well put the comment here too.
I was with the author's prediction, in the long run, until that last sentence. Like the above commenter pointed out, you can't rip your dvd's with handbrake if you have no dvd drive.
Besides, I think until the VAST majority of the population stops buying optical media for movies and music (already happening with music, but cd sales are still huge) the macbook will have a dvd drive.
hell, what about idvd and dvd studio pro? it's going to be hard to convince people that the fact that they can no longer burn a dvd picture slideshow with iphoto, or burn a dvd of a home movie with imovie, etc. etc. is a GOOD thing. sorry to burst your bubble, but that's kinda apple's whole gig for, i'd wager, close to another decade.
now, adding the SD slot to the macbook AIR would be genius, as well as kind of mandatory at this point.
I don't think Apple would stop support for DVD drives.
Even the MacBook Air, which does not have a DVD drive by default, supports both iDVD and the ability to burn a disc of photos.
The Apple DVD +/- RW drive retails for $100, but there are many aftermarket alternatives available for under $50. Most of them are Mac compatible, and are available at places like Staples and Best Buy.
I do admit that I'd still own an external DVD drive if Apple unloaded the internal drive. Thankfully, I rarely use the DVD drive now - I think it'd usually be located in the back of my closet, and would only come out when someone gave me disc - rare these days!
most of all..iDVD was the only iApp that didn't appear onto banners of the very last MWSF when iLife '09 was launched. And iDVD was not publicized during Keynote.
And you know, Apple don't make anything without a specific sense....
Not necessary... you need not stop using optical media, but that physically spinning thing is not for netbooks and notebooks!
what say?
most of the old plasma tv's have some type of meadia card slot, the new oled's will have them too, so it wouldn't be a problem to copy all types of media on a sd card and then then watch them on tele ( is you have no appletv)
I posted this on the source's site, but i may as well put the comment here too.
I was with the author's prediction, in the long run, until that last sentence. Like the above commenter pointed out, you can't rip your dvd's with handbrake if you have no dvd drive.
Besides, I think until the VAST majority of the population stops buying optical media for movies and music (already happening with music, but cd sales are still huge) the macbook will have a dvd drive.
hell, what about idvd and dvd studio pro? it's going to be hard to convince people that the fact that they can no longer burn a dvd picture slideshow with iphoto, or burn a dvd of a home movie with imovie, etc. etc. is a GOOD thing. sorry to burst your bubble, but that's kinda apple's whole gig for, i'd wager, close to another decade.
now, adding the SD slot to the macbook AIR would be genius, as well as kind of mandatory at this point.
Hey look: iDVD was THE ONLY iApp that DID NOT appears onto banners exposed during the very last MacWorld. On that MWSF iLife was updates but no mention about iDVD, neither on banners. And you know Apple doesn't make this type of things without a why, right?
I really like the idea of removing the DVD, for me, is very rarely to use the CD rom or DVD rom. Most of the time I have my files in external storage of memory cards.
Besides that, Sandisk already is selling music albums via Secure Digital Memory cards.
So my be apple can sell a removable DVD (for those who resists to change) with a optional battery like DELL did a few years ago.
you mean like apple did a few years ago? google "pismo" apple used to be all about having hotswappable drive bays, since before the days of OS X even.
Some people react to this idea acting like if the optical drive is removed from the laptop itself it will be impossible to use cds and dvds all together. Apparently they have never heard of an EXTERNAL drive... Apple sells a $100 superdrive with the macbook air, they could just start doing that across the board if your really still need it. I'd be perfectly happy with that.
I have never used my superdrive on the go, i always use it at home, where i could easily use an external drive that connects through USB. I would be more than open to the idea as becuase the slimmer laptop or a bigger battery would be worth the exchange. Everyone thought it was a stupid move on apples part to drop the floppy drive... don't tell me your still missing that.
I'm not convinced that SD is the answer, but if Apple is adding it, they must be pretty set on it. Technology is moving forward and Apple is always on the leading edge, get used to it. If you want to stay in the past, go get yourself a windows machine...
I think the comment before hit it on the head. It's drivin by the consumer. If MOST people just up and say, screw the CD/DVD thing, we are going to do download and put directly to a flash drive, then that is how it will go. Look at HD DVD's, they are catching on VERY SLOWLY, why? Most people are not going to throw away what they have, or change to another format and spend more of there ever shrinking paychecks just to have the latest and greatest.
So 10 years...that is a good estimate, UNLESS some OTHER form of storage comes around that is really not around yet, that makes Flash go the way of the floppy! Think about it!!
What do you mean look at HD DVD's and how slowly they are catching on? Perhaps you might want to do some research on what you are talking about because if you did - you would know HD DVD is DEAD. It died over a year ago. The only HIGH DEFINITION format on DISC right now - is Blu-Ray. There are NO DVD's that are HD. Only Blu-Ray. It's capacity is either 25Gb or 50Gb. There have been discs that will see up to 500Gb but that is probably more for commercial use than anything.
I am all for SD replacing optical media. However, until SD reaches at least 50Gb capacities, there will be very few HD movies or the like on them. The cost would be prohibitive for now. Maybe in the future? I don't know. Anything is possible.
The only disc's that I use are my blu-ray movies. I don't burn dvd's or cd's anymore. Have not done so in years actually.
Maybe, just maybe, he was referring to High Definition (that's what HD stands for, right?) disc formats in general, and not the specific type of HD disc called "HD DVD" which is now mostly defunct.
Sorry, need to make myself clear, I didn't mean HD as in HDDVD, that I am very much aware went the way of the Doe Doe Bird. I was talking about HIGH DEF, but I'll specifically say "BLUE RAY" to avoid any further confusion.
Thanks.
I know you meant High Definition DVD as in a disc that has High Definition and I don't mean to sound like an ass here but I think what he was refering to was that they are not DVD's they are Blu-Ray (no e) it would be like saying i have a movie CD. They are a different technology. It's not like Sony CD-R versus Memorex CD-R. if you had said HD movie sales or something he wouldn't have said anything. Yet again not trying to be a douche bag or anything just trying to help.
"If MOST people just up and say, screw the CD/DVD thing, we are going to do download and put directly to a flash drive, then that is how it will go."
If anyone stood up near me and said that I'd probably pants them. Followed by a wet-willy and a good beating.
The Blu-ray adoption rate is ahead of DVD at the same point in its life cycle. I hate this spin that's put on blu-ray like you have to throw away your DVDs. They all play on blu-ray players, you know?
Personally, Apple doing this would be little more than a pathetic attempt to talk up their movie downloads on iTunes... which are a joke. Their so called HD download look about the same as an DVD upconverted on a Blu-ray player... that's not HD.
iTunes HD Movie sales are higher than Blu-Ray sales 2-1 currently. One report shows 7 Million in 15 months for iTunes compared to the 6 million in 18 months for Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray players are finally coming down in price, so that may affect it.
iTunes Movies Outsell HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc
Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 17
Interesting statistical aside from the Jobs keynote on Tuesday. Apple has sold 7 million movies since the, and yet that number has been more or less deemed a failure. But, thats a million more than the six million Blu-Ray Discs sold as of the end 2007 according to Home Media Research, besting HD-DVD by a near 2-to-1 margin. MacDailyNews points out that iTunes Movies hit the 7 million mark after 15 months, besting the 18 months it took Blu-Ray out hit the six million mark.
This makes me wonder: Now that iTunes has the ability to sell HD movies, does that mark the start of the next battle: Between iTunes and Blu-Ray.
Alloe me to read a few more tea leaves: The company whose notebooks Jobs chose to needle in comparison to the MacBook Air were Sony’s. Okay it’s a stretch, but I don’t think that target was chosen lightly. It’s probably too early to say this, but if Apple TV succeeds (and if Apple starts advertising it seriously it will) the next format war will be between iTunes downloads and Sony’s Blu-Ray. And that would be a very interesting matchup indeed, no?
You got your information from this year and a half old business week article, which is only talking about movies in general, not HD. Had hadn't even been offered at that point. Plus it was in the middle of the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray war. That's not the case anymore. I can't even find current HD only numbers for Apple. I'm sure if there were some it would include rentals too, so you'd never know who was overpaying $20 for a "720p" downloaded file.
I think the comment before hit it on the head. It's drivin by the consumer. If MOST people just up and say, screw the CD/DVD thing, we are going to do download and put directly to a flash drive, then that is how it will go. Look at HD DVD's, they are catching on VERY SLOWLY, why? Most people are not going to throw away what they have, or change to another format and spend more of there ever shrinking paychecks just to have the latest and greatest.
So 10 years...that is a good estimate, UNLESS some OTHER form of storage comes around that is really not around yet, that makes Flash go the way of the floppy! Think about it!!