Superdrive'd TiBooks or Not?

i thought that SuperDrives for this release sounded too good to be true. it makes sense that volume production will begin in spring.

doesn't matter though, i'm sure everyone can make do with DDR RAM and a 64MB video card, not to mention 1GHz!!!:D :D :D

Toshiba has already promoted their new superdrive'd laptop (5200-series), which sould arrive in the beginning of November.
Apple should be in the lead there, and not let Toshiba (only to think about a Wintel comp makes me want to puke...) leave Apple behind. If we do no see a superdrive PB before spring, then it's a disaster...

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Shouldn't that be "superdriven"? Anyway, much more important would be a decent sound system....

Three words:

BUILT TO ORDER

don't forget... the issue isn't whether these drives are available for other computers.. it's whether there are SLOT-LOADING drives available... AND THEN... it's whether they can fit into the titanium form factor...

Sure... Toshiba will have it... but with a monster notebook the size of Godzilla. might as well carry your iMac superdrive right?

Originally posted by chipchen
don't forget... the issue isn't whether these drives are available for other computers.. it's whether there are SLOT-LOADING drives available... AND THEN... it's whether they can fit into the titanium form factor...

Sure... Toshiba will have it... but with a monster notebook the size of Godzilla. might as well carry your iMac superdrive right?

Did you read the article?

TiBooks with Superdrive currently exist in prototype form.

So the answers to your questions are:

1) Yes, there is a slot loading available (at least for testing purposes)

2) Yes, it fits in the TiBook.

arn

ok then, considering that Apple already has superdrives in their test TiBooks and the fact that Toshiba will have it in November (this month) i think that Apple should at least make it available as a build-to-order option.

As Apple killed off OWCs iDVD enabler, I'm hoping an external Superdrive will be released for existing and new Powerbooks. It would be easy to offer this until the next revision gets built-in slot loaders.

Just remember, they may exist in prototype form, but we don't want them releasing overheating Powerbooks that need constant repair. Prototyping at least gives them a chance to figure out if better layout or design is needed. Once it is released, it probably will be the thinnest Superdrive notebook regardless who releases Superdrive first in the U.S. They are already available in bulky notebook form in Japan.

Originally posted by Blackcat
As Apple killed off OWCs iDVD enabler, I'm hoping an external Superdrive will be released for existing and new Powerbooks. It would be easy to offer this until the next revision gets built-in slot loaders.

An Apple portable firewire superdrive would be a great idea, if you ask me. Make iDVD and all the Apple software recognize and work with it, sell it as BTO with the notebooks and seperately (and more expensively) as a standalone.

This way people who bought Macs not thinking they'd ever need to write DVDs and then get into DV work later (like me, actually) could just pick it up from Apple.com or an AppleStore and plug it right in. I'd buy one, I'm sure quite a few others would too. I'm not willing to buy a new computer just for this capability, I'm still paying off my 733mhz Quicksilver.

I know and have heard of lots of people who want a notebook and want to do editing on it without having to use a desktop for the output. This would give them that capability in an only-slightly-cumbersome form.