Apple plans on putting the optical drive underneath?

Thursday, Jan. 25 2007 | Author: Griffith

It seems that Apple has released a patent very recently to put their laptop’s optical drive underneath the laptop. Personally, I find it a horrible idea. If such a thing was released in the future, and we compared both old and new models, I think that people would definitely agree that the current one’s solution is much more appealing.

The only thing positive out of this measure is that it might decrease the thickness of the laptop a bit. But I a bit more thickness to flipping my laptop every time I want to change a CD/DVD.

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7 Responses for "Apple plans on putting the optical drive underneath?"

leberblock

January 26th, 2007 at 4:30 am
1

how about tablet-notebooks? simply lift the screen and insert CD/DVD. so there are no top-down-questions. … only an idea! ;)
cliche

January 26th, 2007 at 11:07 am
2

It makes sense to me. I can’t remember the last time I used the CD/DVD drive on my laptop… it’s probably back when I installed Windows, Linux, and few core apps like Office and Photoshop. All the smaller apps and media were either downloaded or transferred via LAN. I can see optical drives becoming obsolete in the near future as HD sizes in laptops continue to grow, more people get access to broadband, and LAN (especially wireless) get more common. Besides, if I was Steve, I wouldn’t want people to buy CDs and DVDs in the first place and get them from iTunes instead.
Brian Larter

January 26th, 2007 at 11:09 am
3

whats wrong with the slot apple currently has? I think thats great as it is. i think this bottom loader thing is a little ridiculas.
spiderwebby

January 26th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
4

if they go ahead with this then people will have an even better reason not to buy apple stuff. (other than the fact that its made by apple of course)
Michael

January 26th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
5

Hmm, looks like its a patent to me. Where does it say that Apple *plans* to do this?
CrimsonKnight13

January 27th, 2007 at 12:59 am
6

A goofy idea that will possibly never be implemented… ever.
db

January 31st, 2007 at 1:27 pm
7

This is probably one of their dumbest ideas yet.