K PAX If you want a Mac

K PAX

If you want a Mac notebook you have to be willing to accept that their slim design does add limitations in which physics cant be overlooked or ignored simply by saying but its a Mac! But that 900 PC notebook is 2 thick and uses a large tray-loading Blu-ray drive. Its not a 1 thick notebook using a 5mm optical drive for which their are absolutely no BDs available by any BD vendor. If you want a Mac notebook you have to be willing to accept that their slim design does add limitations in which physics cant be overlooked or ignored simply by saying but its a Mac! You guys can keep telling yourselves that, but drive availability is NOT an issue and hasnt been for awhile now. Matsushita developed drives for Apple last winter in time for the Feb refresh and Optiarc did it at a lower cost in time for this refresh. You guys are basing your opinion on the fact that no such drives are available at which is ONLY the case because no OEM has placed orders for either drive Apple being the only major OEM who would require such a drive. Notebook K PAX arent like desktop if no major OEM orders them, they dont go into production. That doesnt mean the physics have yet to be worked out or anything else is causing a delay in production. Engineering samples of both drives exist and Cupertino has both, and the newer Optiarc drive is being though in its tray-load form, in the new Sony TT series. The upcoming Dell Studio XPS 13 will likely use the drive as well, though I dont know if theyll use the slot-load or tray-load variant. BTW, Sonys TT series offers Blu-ray, 1 LED display, DUAL 64GB SSDs in a RAID configuration, and far more ports than the new MBP in a package considerably smaller than the MB or MBP and at leass than 1 thick. Even in a VERY compact package, you can offer FAR more than Apple gives you engineering issues are just an excuse. I stated a fact based on that fact. which is ONLY the case because no OEM has placed orders for either drive Apple being the only major OEM who would require such a drive. Notebook drives arent like desktop if no major OEM orders them, they dont go into production. So if Apple were the ONLY ONES buying these 5mm drives and the 7mm drives are already prohibitively expensive and the number of customers even wanting BD, can you image how much they would cost? Of course Apple didntgo with BD so Im amazed, with that knowledge that you still wonder how a 900 notebook can have BD. That doesnt mean the physics have yet to be worked out or anything else is causing a delay in production. I didnt say it wasnt possible. I said the physics cant be overlooked. A 5mm slot-load BD will cost more and be slower than desktop-grade tray-loading BD. In computers, smaller usually equals more expensive. I think we can agree on that. Apple just isnt going to go to a considerably thicker notebook with a tray-loading drive just to offer a cheaper BD option that is more i-line with the cheap BD options and that wont matter to most customers.