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Originally Posted by BWinmill
In that case, it means paying more to get less.  |
Meh, an ethernet port is maybe a good emergency fallback in case a router dies, but optical drives are basically obsolete. Both the drives and the associated media take up a lot of space, as well as generating noise and heat in operation and being extremely prone to failure. Many people rip them out of older Macbooks to install additional hard drives or SSDs. Even for a desktop machine, it makes more sense to keep an external drive boxed in a closet for occasional use.
Certainly there's an element of, "If you want media on your Macbook, you will get it from iTunes!" but it's really not a comparable design decision to omitting all external storage. What optical drives and ethernet ports on laptops have in common is that they go unused 98.72568% of the time, whereas most Android users do take advantage of expandable storage on a more or less constant basis.