"On a computer aimed at the home office and education?!" Yes, on a computer aimed at the home office and education.
Front and center sat a tray-loading optical drive, but a 3.5-inch floppy disc drive was nowhere to be found.
Jobs.įor those who claim to be a bit newer to the world (read: not "of age"), you may not be intimately familiar with the backlash that came as the original iMac was introduced. Compared to most everything else in the technology universe, the tried-and-true optical drive has managed to hang around well beyond what it's creator likely had in mind, but it's pretty obvious that 2011 is to the ODD what 1998 was to the floppy drive. For years, ODDs have been standard fare, spinning CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs ( however briefly) and Blu-ray Discs, not to mention a few other formats that didn't do much to deserve a mention. Pundits have argued that you could tether a USB SuperDrive to the new mini and save $20 in the process compared to last year's rig, but does relying on a cabled accessory go hand-in-hand with beauty and simplicity? No, and I've every reason to believe that Apple would agree.ĭespite the obvious - that consumers would buy a mini to reduce the sheer burden of operating a convoluted desktop setup - Apple's gone and yanked what has become a staple in both Macs and PCs alike. This year, a $599 model showed up on my doorstep promising the same, but instead it delivered a noticeable drop in actual functionality. Last year, that bantam box arrived with a $699 price tag, pep in its step and a personality that could charm even the most hardened desktop owner. But frankly, it doesn't much matter - Apple's officially done with the optical drive, and there's no evidence more strikingly clear than the mid 2011 refresh of its Mac mini.
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