Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all
Apple hasn’t released a Mac with a Blu-Ray drive, nor does Apple have support for Blu-Ray baked into Mac OS X. So even if you attach an external Blu-Ray drive to your Mac, you can only use if for reading and writing.For apple the future is to replace optical drive with flash media and downloads.
In the words of an senior official at APPLE : I decided to take a leap of faith and installed an OptiBay hard drive (pictured above) from MCE TechnologiesMCE Technologies in my MacBook Pro (late 2009) in place of the optical drive. Prices range from $189 for 250GB to $279 for a 7200RPM 500GB and the installation itself was easy. Just remove the bottom case, remove three screws, the optical drive and put the OptiBay in its place. Having a second hard drive in my MBP gives me gratuitous amounts of storage in place of an optical drive I barely used.
If you’re worried about losing your optical drive, fear not. MCE includes an external optical drive enclosure for your removed SuperDrive so that you’ll still be able to load software and read and write CD/DVD discs to your heart’s content. Just pop your old optical drive into the enclosure, install two screws and you have a USB powered external SuperDrive. I’m keeping mine in my backback for a while, just in case.SSDs can instantly double the performance of your Mac but they cost significantly more than HDDs. The great news is you don’t have to sacrifice capacity in exchange for raw speed.
In the words of an senior official at APPLE : I decided to take a leap of faith and installed an OptiBay hard drive (pictured above) from MCE TechnologiesMCE Technologies in my MacBook Pro (late 2009) in place of the optical drive. Prices range from $189 for 250GB to $279 for a 7200RPM 500GB and the installation itself was easy. Just remove the bottom case, remove three screws, the optical drive and put the OptiBay in its place. Having a second hard drive in my MBP gives me gratuitous amounts of storage in place of an optical drive I barely used.
If you’re worried about losing your optical drive, fear not. MCE includes an external optical drive enclosure for your removed SuperDrive so that you’ll still be able to load software and read and write CD/DVD discs to your heart’s content. Just pop your old optical drive into the enclosure, install two screws and you have a USB powered external SuperDrive. I’m keeping mine in my backback for a while, just in case.SSDs can instantly double the performance of your Mac but they cost significantly more than HDDs. The great news is you don’t have to sacrifice capacity in exchange for raw speed.
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