I didn't notice an optical drive on the new iMacs. If this is true then how are customers to insert a dvd from a new peripheral purchased?

Where is the DVD player on the new iMacs?

I'm only guessing but it is no coincidence that Lion and Mountain Lion can only be bought be download from App Store.   Apple may well only want to sell this way in the future, via the App Store.   So no need for DVD facilities.

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    Any idea how much weight that would save?

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  • Why is apple moving away from the optical drive with the new Macbook Pro?

    Now I know that they are still selling the Macbook Pro's with the optical drive, but why abandond the drive in the newest model? CD's, DVD's, and Blue-ray's are still big parts of our lives, why push people to swithch over to digital? I do not want to go out of my way to buy digital copies of my favorite movies, softwares, and games when apple stops selling the incase optical drive, nor do think it's practical to carry around an external drive?
    Now I know this is a harder question to answer, but why does it make the product better? Does this make the product more efficient? Is it more eco friendly? And please, be specific. Thanks.    
              - Pappyprops
         P.S. I am not looking for a new computer, I have a 2011 Macbook Pro and love it!

    Let me take your specific questions in order:
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         There are a couple of reasons - I should note that I do not agree with them, just stating them. They want to pull more WinDoze 'ultrabook' shoppers over to the Mac line. That's a good thing. The impression is that lighter is better for that market so, they had to lose some weight. Also, Apple obviously believes that 'culturally', we will at some point fail to utilize physical mediums. I can tell you that is never going to happen. Not this year, not in ten years, not in 100 years. Now, before some smartass calls me on my inability to time travel, thus, my answer must be wrong, let me point out the obvious, which is that everything physical has a limit. DVDs do not last forever, but once encoded, they are a solid medium and billions exist. Thumb drives sound great in theory but in practice, despite being able to hold more data, they are no more solid than DVDs and it will be a long, long time before DVDs go away in the marketplace. People want to have physical mediums. Look at the iPad - great for reading books, but every survey shows people prefer actual books. Personally, I do not want to have to have 500 TB of space for all my media, nor do I want a company to have the ability to 'pull the plug' on my media - if it's not physically in my hands, they can do that. Same kind of reason there is opposition to the US healthcare bill; do you feel safer with your information in a folder in an office where the only real fear is fire or safer with your sensitve healthcare information on a drive somewhere where a hacker can wreak havoc? We are simply more comfortable with touch-and-feel.
    Why does it make the product better?
        It doesn't. IMHO. Now, the Retina screen is something better (I questioned this when I compared it to the anti-glare version of the prior incarnation, see prior post) but the SSD, while tiny, is technically safer and more solid for data (no moving parts, etc). But the lack of a DVD drive (I felt they should have gone the other way and provided at least an option for an internal BluRay Superdrive) does not, by itself, make it better. It makes it lighter, not better. For people who have one computer in their home for business and home use, an external drive will now be a must; the kids will want to watch their movies on roadtrips, etc. In my case, clients want DVDs, so an external is now a must for me, unfortunately.
    Does this make the product more efficient?
         I can't imagine it does in any way, but I'm not an engineer and, more importantly, I do not have one (yet). However, barring OS issues, loading a DVD vs. loading a movie in iTunes - loading the iTunes movie is faster, but it's obviously not better, since BluRay is much better image quality. Does the speed of the load make it more 'efficient'? That will be argued. I would say it is negligible. It may help airflow not having it in there, it obviously makes it lighter. But that does not automatically equate into more 'efficient'.
    You also asked about eco-friendly and frankly, I think these machines are as eco as you can get and can't really be moreseo. MHO. I cannot imagine not having an optical drive makes it (net) any more eco friendly.

  • HT2801 Why is there no optical drive in the iMAC

    I am curious as to what the thought process was with not fitting an optical drive to the new iMAC. I believe this was a financial choice, ensuring that the customer pays the already over priced cost for the main equipment. Then as the equipment really isn't fit for purpose it then forces the customer to pay more at an overly high rate for peripherals that should be included.
    This is the equivalent of buying a car and finding that it doesn't have a windscreen. You can still drive the car, but it's not all that usefull really.
    The only problem with these forums is that you never get the manufacturers actually participating. They take your money but are not prepared to either capitulate to their error, or defend their standpoint.
    I purchased a 13' MAC Book Pro Retina, and am very pleased with it. I own an iPhone and an iPad Mini. So I am not an Apple antichrist! I think that those in the silver tower of power have forgotten who keeps them in that tower and provides them with their end of year bonuses etc, it's us...the customer! We are looking after you Apple, how about looking after us for a change.

    I think that you caon only take form over function so far. I think that this direction that both Apple and Microsoft are taking is towards an "everything is in the cloud" position. This is all very well until you find that using Word will cost you x pence or that you have to then pay for access to iMovie and edit your movies in the cloud. It is human nature to be averse to change and if that change is too steep a curve then it is also human nature to push back. I have read a lot of threads that are asking this very same question and the only people that don't seem to be joining in hte discussion is Apple themselves and that is a pity really. It would be nice to hear what they have to say on this subject and to understand the rational behind it.

  • Optical Drive on the iSight G5 Model

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    tintinlad:
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    I read through it before and I thought I had saved it but no one knew about it or mentioned it until you just did. Of all of the publications dealing with the iSight, I think this is the best one. The photos are quite good and the limited amount of writing that I have interpreted is also quite good. If there ever were a reference article about the iSight, this is it. Thank you very much.
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  • External Optical Drive not working with iMac

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    Valen85 wrote:
    I have a memorex external drive that I have been using to install Windows 7 with boot camp and have successfully used it on 2 mac-mini's.
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    I am not trying to install Windows 7 boot camp on an iMac that has a broken internal optical drive but the external will not run.
    I see iMac SSD Drive, Recovery HD Drive , Windows CD , EFI Boot cd as options.
    If I select Windows it takes me to a black screen that says it doesnt see a boot CD clicking on EFI boot does nothing.
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    The Windows and EFI Boot will not work if you try to boot the iMac from the external. Test this from the internal Optical drive as well. If your iMac is a UEFI Mac (2013+) it will let you boot from the DVD directly (without Bootcamp).
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  • Tried to upgrade to osx 10.9 from 10.7 and I didn't notice that it downloads in the launcher. I turned my mac off and ever since then it has glitched out and will not download no matter what I do. I have had it for 3 years which is out of warranty.

    Tried to upgrade to osx 10.9 from 10.7 and I didn't notice that it downloads in the launcher. I turned my mac off and ever since then it has glitched out and will not download no matter what I do. I have had it for 3 years which is out of warranty. It now has a blank bar under the launch pad and no matter how many times I try re-downloading it or restarting my computer it does not work. I use too play starcraft and other games on this computer although new patched/updates have made it that I can no longer do that now. Really frustrating having to deal with this especially after buying this computer upfront and now out of warranty.

    Go to your Applications folder and find a file called "Install OS X Mavericks".  Send it to the trash and delete it.  Then try the download again.

  • How can I connect my existing firewire drives to the "new" Macbook pro

    I'm thinking about getting a new Macbook Pro, to take on the road.
    I already have four external drives with firewire and USB 2.0 ports.
    After I looked at the new machine I noticed it only had USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt ports.
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    You can use the USB3 connections for USB2.  That's downward compatible.  Just runs at USB2 speed.
    Just this week apple announced a couple of TB adapters, TB-to-ethernet and TB-to-firewire.  But the FW adapter is not at the apple store as yet (at least at the time I am posting this).

  • How do I run system recovery dvd from an external dvd drive?

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  • HT1529 where is the disk drive on the new Mac?

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    There is no optical drive in the current, "Late 2012" iMac models. If you need to install software only available on a disk, you'll either need another computer that does have an optical drive in which case you can use Remote Disk:
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  • I just bought a mac mini over the weekend. I saved items from my old G4 to an external hard drive. I go to plug in the external hard drive and the new computer is not recognizing it. Help.

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  • HT1751 i bought a new, larger external hard drive. copied my itunes library from the old drive to the new one, changed the libarary location in Edit/Preferences/Advanced to the new drive. iTunes will not start or run unless old hard drive plugged in.??

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