Apple To Stick Optical Drive On Bottom Of Macbooks?
- January 25th, 2007
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Apple could very well be working on that “ultra-portable” Macbook that everyone keeps blabbing about. Well thanks to a lovely patent drawing, Jobs & Co. seem to want to throw the optical drive on the bottom to decrease the amount of space used in the design of the laptop.
A pain in the butt? You betcha. Though Unwired View counters that we don’t really use our optical drives that much, CrunchGear says that having to turn your laptop over every time you need to switch discs is a burden for everyone. Maybe at the WWDC this summer we’ll find out more about this move Apple might make.
Apple wants to make Mac Book smaller… By putting Optical Disc Drive at the Bottom [Unwired View]
Dave
2007-01-25 12:28:14
I think this is a good idea. It would allow a smaller notebook or allow for a larger size battery or multiple batteries for 10+ hours of computing.
The CD isn’t used that much now that USB FLASH memory devices allow large file transfers via sneaker nets when needed.
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webonics
2007-01-25 15:18:31
This is all speculation, but what if this patent is really intended for the mythic and elusive Mac tablet (iTablet). It seems to me that a “rear-entry” would be applicable and usable with that type of product.
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Tom Scheinfeldt
2007-01-25 21:20:24
I don’t know… This looks to me like old news. If you look closely at the drawing, the computer looks an awful lot like the original G4 (”Ti-Book”) PowerBook — it has those ugly protruding hinges, for example. That suggests this is something Apple was contemplating 4 or 5 years ago, not something they’re working on now.
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Elodie
2007-01-26 00:33:46
I use my optical drive quite a bit. I would be quite annoyed by that kind of system! wouldn’t a slot-load be as small?
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