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<blockquote data-quote="mdurkin" data-source="post: 1500417" data-attributes="member: 295603"><p>Because you could do that and spend much less. If you want to spend the money go ahead, but in my opinion, if you are in college, probably money does matter. If you can save, you should. I have two girls in college right now and I know that they need to be careful how they spend money. We gave each of our kids (four so far, one to go) a technology budget of 1500.00 when they graduated from high school. They could do whatever they wanted with that, but that was it. The rest was on you. My kids have to be frugal.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[QUOTE="Oversight" implies that Apple didn't realize what it was doing when it dropped the optical drive. It certainly did. The drop was intentional and one of the ways that it was able to get the machine to be as thin and light as it is. Considering that eventually all PCs will drop the optical drive, I'd say that Apple's just ahead of the game in this regard like it was for not including a floppy drive in the original iMac.</p><p></p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Yes, it was clearly intentional, that makes it an oversight. Otherwise it would have just been a mistake. ;D</p><p></p><p>I know that there will be a day that CD's and DVD's are not necessary, but it is not that time yet. I can think of many reasons they are still valuable. Also, don't understand why only two USB ports and adding a thunderbolt port. I kind of like idea of the thunderbolt port, but so far it isn't useful. Hopefully it will get better adoption than firewire did. Seems like it could be useful at some point, but I don't think it is yet.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="mdurkin, post: 1500417, member: 295603"] Because you could do that and spend much less. If you want to spend the money go ahead, but in my opinion, if you are in college, probably money does matter. If you can save, you should. I have two girls in college right now and I know that they need to be careful how they spend money. We gave each of our kids (four so far, one to go) a technology budget of 1500.00 when they graduated from high school. They could do whatever they wanted with that, but that was it. The rest was on you. My kids have to be frugal. [QUOTE="Oversight" implies that Apple didn't realize what it was doing when it dropped the optical drive. It certainly did. The drop was intentional and one of the ways that it was able to get the machine to be as thin and light as it is. Considering that eventually all PCs will drop the optical drive, I'd say that Apple's just ahead of the game in this regard like it was for not including a floppy drive in the original iMac. .[/QUOTE] Yes, it was clearly intentional, that makes it an oversight. Otherwise it would have just been a mistake. ;D I know that there will be a day that CD's and DVD's are not necessary, but it is not that time yet. I can think of many reasons they are still valuable. Also, don't understand why only two USB ports and adding a thunderbolt port. I kind of like idea of the thunderbolt port, but so far it isn't useful. Hopefully it will get better adoption than firewire did. Seems like it could be useful at some point, but I don't think it is yet. [/QUOTE]
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