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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1542334"><p>While most people think Apple took out the optical drives from its iMac and Mac mini because THIN, I actually think it was the most common point of failure on those machines, and that removing it in favor of cheaper external drives was a smart move that increased reliability and improved margins. While my present MacBook Pro has a functioning optical drive, I realised some years ago that I never burned discs anywhere but at home, and so I bought an external unit on the premise that if it failed, it would be easily replaced. Just my luck, it never failed. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>As for Blu-Ray, Steve Jobs correctly called the rights management "a bag of hurt" -- for a long time it was quite difficult to get Blu-ray drives that could both display AND BURN Blu-ray movies, though as a storage device it was pretty handy (if expensive). Today things aren't actually much better thanks to idiotic DRM, but that's probably not what kept the drives off Macs as much as Apple sees (correctly, in my view) a future more about greater bandwidth and downloading than about discs and storage.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line: you can get a cheap external Blu-ray drive if you need it, and it will work fine. I've found that I actually burn very few DVDs anymore personally.</p><p></p><p>As for the monitor part of the comparison, I think the Mac's screen is better color-balanced and higher-quality than the XPS 27, but that's not to say the Dell machine is junk or anything. I'm used to the way Mac screens "look" and that my be influencing my view. On the whole, I find all-in-ones to be way more reliable than elitists give them credit for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1542334"] While most people think Apple took out the optical drives from its iMac and Mac mini because THIN, I actually think it was the most common point of failure on those machines, and that removing it in favor of cheaper external drives was a smart move that increased reliability and improved margins. While my present MacBook Pro has a functioning optical drive, I realised some years ago that I never burned discs anywhere but at home, and so I bought an external unit on the premise that if it failed, it would be easily replaced. Just my luck, it never failed. :) As for Blu-Ray, Steve Jobs correctly called the rights management "a bag of hurt" -- for a long time it was quite difficult to get Blu-ray drives that could both display AND BURN Blu-ray movies, though as a storage device it was pretty handy (if expensive). Today things aren't actually much better thanks to idiotic DRM, but that's probably not what kept the drives off Macs as much as Apple sees (correctly, in my view) a future more about greater bandwidth and downloading than about discs and storage. Bottom line: you can get a cheap external Blu-ray drive if you need it, and it will work fine. I've found that I actually burn very few DVDs anymore personally. As for the monitor part of the comparison, I think the Mac's screen is better color-balanced and higher-quality than the XPS 27, but that's not to say the Dell machine is junk or anything. I'm used to the way Mac screens "look" and that my be influencing my view. On the whole, I find all-in-ones to be way more reliable than elitists give them credit for. [/QUOTE]
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