Red sonja trailer Optiarc Sony/NEC joint venture developed a

Red sonja trailer Optiarc Sony/NEC joint venture developed a 5mm drive primarily for use by Apple and offered them to Apple as slot-loading drives for use in the latest machines. The fact that you cant buy one at retail has nothing to do with what was made available to Apple. Note that Matsushita did the same thing in time for the early 2008 refresh, and Apple turned them down as well. A version of the Optiarc drive IS being used in the new Sony TT series that was just released, and I believe will be used in the upcoming Dell 13 Studio XPS refresh coming soon. The lack of drives used to be a very real issue for Apple prior to this year, but it no longer is. I cant say too much about the issue, but the reason Apple didnt end up including Blu-ray with this release has NOTHING to do with drive availability. Theres a lot of corporate politics going on behind the scenes, and the main issue is with Jobs wanting read: demanding that ALL studios start including iPhone/iPod compatible copies of their movies on Blu-ray which means licensing and paying for Apples DRM implementation. Most studios red sonja trailer done as he requested though on a limited number of titles but some are very reluctant to start paying Apple for rights to DRM they really dont care to use, as theyre internal studies have shown customers arent willing to pay extra for digital copies of the movies they buy. The digital copy idea is VERY crucial to Apple, but studios are still fairly lukewarm to the concept. So, I suppose, complex licensing wasnt exactly its just not at all the whole story. Its not that Blu-rays licensing is too complicated, its that Jobs demands are MAKING the negotiations complicated. Personally, I dont like the idea of paying 2k for a machine that cant do things that a 900 PC notebook can easily do. I have over 200 BDs, have no interest in iTunes movie store, and have no interest at all in wasting my time ripping those titles, and definitely no interest in re-encoding those titles. When I travel which is very frequently I want to be able to grab a couple dozen titles off the shelf, throw them in the case, and go. No other solution accomplishes that and none are going to anytime soon. I dont claim to be the average consumer, nor do I have any desire to be. Apple has never geared itself toward average consumers anyway theyve always gone after pro-sumers, graphics artists, and video professionals. Yet they dont have Blu-ray, they dont have matte screens, and they dont even have enough ports on alleged pro models do get actual work done. Who exactly do they red sonja trailer their customers are? If they think they can continue being successful just releasing refreshes and getting fanbois apologies to those here who fit that description to keep buying new toys then, Im sorry, but their current success doesnt look likely to continue all that much longer particularly in the current economy. Personally, I dont like the idea of paying 2k for a machine that cant do things that a 900 PC notebook can easily do. But that 900 PC notebook is 2 thick and uses a large tray-loading Blu-ray drive. Its not a 1 thick notebook using a 5mm optical drive for which their are absolutely no BDs available by any BD vendor. If you want a Mac notebook you have to be willing to accept that their slim design does add limitations in which physics cant be overlooked or ignored simply by saying but its a Mac! But that 900 PC notebook is 2 thick and uses a large tray-loading Blu-ray drive. Its not a 1 thick notebook using a 5mm optical drive for which their are absolutely no BDs available by any BD vendor. If you want a Mac notebook you have to be willing to accept that their slim design does add limitations in which physics cant be overlooked or ignored simply by saying but its a Mac! You guys can keep telling yourselves that, but drive availability is NOT an issue and hasnt been for awhile now. Matsushita developed drives for Apple last winter in time for the Feb refresh red sonja trailer Optiarc did it at a lower cost in time for this refresh. You guys are basing your opinion on the fact that no such drives are available at which is ONLY the case because no OEM has placed orders for either drive Apple being the only major OEM who would require such a drive. Notebook drives arent like desktop if no major OEM orders them, they dont go into production. That doesnt mean the physics have yet to be worked out or anything else is causing a delay in production. Engineering samples of both drives exist and Cupertino has both, and the newer Optiarc drive is being though in its tray-load form, in the new Sony TT series. The upcoming Dell Studio XPS 13 will likely use the drive as well, though I dont know if theyll use the slot-load or tray-load variant. BTW, Sonys TT series offers Blu-ray, 1 LED display, DUAL 64GB SSDs in a RAID configuration, and far more ports than the new MBP in a package considerably smaller than the MB or MBP and at leass than 1 thick. Even in a VERY compact package, you can offer FAR more than Apple gives you engineering issues are just an excuse. I stated a fact based on that fact. which is ONLY the case because no OEM has placed orders for either drive Apple being the only major OEM who would require such a drive. Notebook drives arent like desktop if no major OEM orders them, they dont go into production. So if Apple were the ONLY ONES buying these 5mm drives and the 7mm drives are already prohibitively expensive and the number of customers even wanting BD, can you image how much they would cost? Of course Apple didntgo with BD so Im amazed, with that knowledge that you still wonder how a 900 notebook can have BD. That doesnt mean the physics have yet to be worked out or anything else is causing a delay in production.