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Question

When will the CD-Drive become officially obsolete?

Oct 17, 2011 6:43AM PDT

Ive used my CD-Drive twice on my MBP....

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Not sure it will be that soon,
Oct 17, 2011 9:33AM PDT

but it will eventually happen.
Look what happened to the Floppy disk. It is now fairly normal to find PC's arriving without Floppy disk drives but with the option to install one, for a price.

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When the HDD goes?
Oct 18, 2011 3:34AM PDT

For now there are only a few ways to reload the OS. When they supply it onboard or some stick form then it might stand a chance of vanishing.

LOOK AT THE NETBOOKS to find no such drive but the owners lose the installed OS and find they need to reload the OS. But HOW?

Yes it's like a car. Again, it's like a car. Sometimes you need tools to repair the thing. Carrying around the repair kits and tools (like a CD drive) may be a thing of the past but LIKE A CAR will owners understand that you need some USB CD DRIVE to reload the OS? So far? No.
Bob

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MacBook Air comes with a stick drive
Nov 3, 2011 7:33AM PDT

My second generation MacBook Air came with a USB stick drive containing the current (at time of purchase {Snow Leopard}) OS. That said, I still purchased Apple's external USB Superdrive.

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Obsolete?
Oct 28, 2011 3:56PM PDT

If DVDs/Blurays will become obsolete, so will the CD-Drive.

But then when will the DVDs become obsolete? That we may never know.