There will always be something faster and with higher specs, just around the corner.
Apple has always been very tight lipped about what will be in each machine, and when.
So, you wait 6 months and Apple does build with HD DVD or Blu-Ray players/burners and you buy one, chances are that in 6 months they will
build one with a faster optical device at a lower price.
I really would not have considered the lack of a particular optical drive as a reason for suicide.
As for being in bed with Intel, just because the buy their processors from them does not mean that Intel is calling the shots. After all, the Winbox builders have been using Intel for years and Intel didn't call the shots for them.
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With Apple's nature to turn out new computer hardware models every 6 months, I was wondering if I should wait for the models with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drives.
I know apple sits on the board for Blu-Ray, but I heard intel backs HD-DVD. Since Apple is in bed with Intel now-a-days, I figured the next gen drive they choose was still in the air.
I really want the new macbook pro's but I would shoot myself if I bought one today and the new blu-ray macbooks come out 6 months from now. those things ain't cheap.

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