New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

that sounds exhausting

cd drive on a laptop does seem dumb as hell, apple's external drive is $79, get over it

Since when is an iMac a laptop?

I do not want to pay extra money for an external floppy drive

This was also true when most of my media was on floppy drives.

looks like you can get an external floppy drive for about 15 bucks, i think you should drop your objection to them.

lol

Apple's plan is pretty much to make all of their systems laptoppish, except for the mac pro, which is still nearly laptop-compact due to all the custom stuff! an iMac is basically a laptop with a really big screen.

I'm not saying that isn't their plan, I'm saying I find their plan annoying.

there should be a redbox for external optical drives. rent an optical driver $1.62 per day. pick it up and drop it off where you get your groceries.

driver = drive for

the optical driver is the golf invention we've been waiting for

tough titty, I say. the future has to start somewhere. try getting a good 8-track player installed in a recent car.

anyway, people buy vinyl with little download cards these days, so I would recommend a usb turntable.

I would buy CDs if they just came with liner notes and download codes inside the digipacks and no worthless CDs.

the CD is the cheapest part of that package to actually produce

try getting a good 8-track player installed in a recent car.

What if you have a good 8-track player in your car, it plays just fine, and then one day, you start the car up and the 8-track no longer works because the car's software no longer recognizes it.

What if.

that would explain why this mitch ryder and the detroit wheels cassette just isn't working

what if progress is actually a myth makes u think

Progress doesn't do much when shit doesn't work anymore.

How about I take your car to the shop right now, get it hooked up to where it runs on pixie dust, but oh yeah, your stereo, tires and power steering won't work anymore.

Because you're just in luck, my company sells the updated versions of those products.

^xp lost woody guthrie classic

I have to admit, I stole that example from my dad who really did have an 8-track player in his truck and drove around listening to mitch ryder

Wow, I had no idea that Apple had snowed people into accepting the lack of an optical drive in a laptop as a totally cool and acceptible attribute. But I guess snowing people is one of their strongest suits.

at least they don't do mixed metaphors.

When was the last time you used an optical drive xp

Saturday

I will be using it again tonight

TMI

Yeah, all the freakin' time. I know there's been a push to rid the world of physical media, but some (possibly many) of us are a little slower to adapt.

Congratulations on not being snowed in by Apple's strongest suit

keep your hobbyist/specialist optical drives out of my laptop

As a rule, I won't buy a new laptop unless it has a crystal radio.

keep your hobbyist/specialist optical drives out of my laptop

have fun when your hard drive explodes and your backup restore fails

- I went full Apple on the login/filesystem. I'll probably regret linking my login to my Apple ID, but on a machine that supports the encryption in hardware, FileVault is a no-brainer

speaking as someone whose yosemite froze and crashed during an update, i would not encrypt my HD if i were you

it made system recovery much, much harder (i had to take it to a professional)

although i know you are a professional so maybe you know what you are doing

I get so pissed when I accidentally eject my laptop's optical drive bc my laptop turns the drive's power on.

it's like the panic button on my 2000 Camry's keyless entry, i.e. a useless annoyance

have fun when your hard drive explodes and your backup restore fails

the last three system restores I've done to my mac pro, from scratch, involved booting from a memory stick. it has two optical drives.

this is like my boss saying "man, someone has to have a dvd-r around here somewhere" last week when he wanted to put ubuntu on some old dell shitbox we use for a project dashboard. I was like, dude, I am sure it can boot from usb and I had the image on a lil' usb stick in no time

imo using a usb memory stick is more efficient, especially for software installs, because you're not going to have this disc that is useless in two weeks when the software gets updated

I mean, there's also the whole thing about them being hell of exploitable when it comes to corporate security, but that comes down to not putting strange usb sticks in yr machine

you just have to buy your white stripes albums on custom $300 USB sticks now

there's actually a drawer full of blank optical media in my office at work, I even burned pfsense to a CD a few weeks ago, I should probably throw it away though.

Maybe I should just buy CDs and throw the discs away.

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

btw I would like to also note that I personally still do buy compact discs, vinyl records, and I have even got a couple package deals that included cassette tapes and I have the ability to listen to all these things

ooh or I could just buy vinyl and throw the vinyl part away and put the sleeve in a filing cabinet

if you're concerned about data integrity of your music collection it should have an onsite and offsite backup just like any other data you don't want to lose

xxp pretty cool superpower

there is no way I am reripping that much shit from scratch, and if I did, I would shell out for iTunes in the Cloud or w/e

fwiw I have CDs in a box in my basement I don't feel like sorting through and occasionally grab a torrent instead of walking down there and sorting through because it takes seconds

I like to buy CDs that are in cool packaging and I like the smells of ink and the texture of neat stuff. jewel cases can die in a fire, though

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

― DJP, Monday, March 16, 2015 5:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

I tried accessing some data I burned on DVD-Rs about 10 years ago and like all of it was corrupted

yeah, I've lost swaths of my music collection before and my solution was, irritatingly, to add albums back one at a time as I felt like listening, or go through a half dozen on a weekend at random, because there is no way I am going to add them all at once

really if you need to rerip the whole thing, you want a machine with multiple CD drives anyway