Does a DVD-CD drive like the ones in the old iMac's cost that much more than a plain CD-drive. Why don't they put these in base models?
With more software going on DVD's it seems like this would be a better base selection that the CD-drive in the base eMac etc?
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It applies even more to the iBook - it would be great if they had a DVD/CD drive on the low end (even as an option) but I think a lot of people would ditch the Combo version for the DVD version.
But then again, Apple's low end offerings have always been half hearted at best.
and i don't think it's going to happen.
the few titles that have come out on DVD have been flops.
i'd love for DVD to be standard, but that's the market reality.
*drool*
Originally posted by pesi
people have been saying that all major software will be soon shipping on DVDs for the past five years... and it has yet to happen.
Well, it sure is nice to reinstall the system on a new iMac and have it all on one DVD. No pain in the ass 5 CD mess to deal with.
Something else Apple could consider. Pumping out 1 DVD per machine, as opposed to all these CDs to press and package...
They were right here a minute ago!
You took them, didn't you?
Just admit it.
Originally posted by Clayton Magnet
No pain in the ass 5 CD mess to deal with.
Or 37 floppys
Originally posted by der Kopf
Or 37 floppys
Try about 2,400 formatted floppies for 5 formatted CD-ROM's worth of space.
Wow...if every floppy disk is about 1/8" thick, a stack of 2400 floppies would be about 25 feet tall.
If every floppy weighed in at around .64 oz, 2400 floppies would weigh almost 100 pounds.
Assuming a transfer rate of 75KB/s, and about five seconds to swap each disk, it would take 15 hours to get all of that data from media to hard disk...assuming perfect timing and no breaks.
And some most PC OEMs still include a floppy drive on all of their machines. And I thought I knew some really stupid people...