Personally, I think they should have put a blu-ray player in it, especially now as the mini has HDMI. Would make the perfect little media server.
But to remove the DVD and keep it the same size? crazy. Do Apple sell external DVD drives? or do you have to get a third party model? I fancy grabbing a new iMac next year, hope they do not remove the drive from there. On 31 Jul 2011, at 03:44, Mike Arrigo wrote: > I can understand somewhat not including a DVD drive with themacbook air, many > computers of that size do not include these. But I think removing the DVD > drive from the mac mini is going too far. There will probably come a time > when disks will no longer be used, but we are not there yet. I still use dvd > drives quite a bit, even it's for playing audio disks. > On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan >> >> Actually you're mistaken about the Command+R option, it works on every Lion >> installation on every machine I believe. Certainly it works on our 2009 >> MacBook Pro, my work machines and also their Mac Pros. >> >> But I believe that, although Apple is pushing the bounds, they're pushing >> things too far too fast. The reason is simple: As you quite rightly say, >> the availability of uncapped high-speed Internet connectivity is sparse in >> places and it turns the availability of Lion into a bit of what we'd call a >> "Post Code (you'd call it a zip code) lottery. >> >> Gordon >> >> >> On 30 Jul 2011, at 20:56, Jon Cohn wrote: >> >> Gordon, >> >> What I have read is that this is true with all of the hardware that was >> shipped with Lion on it. Apparently the Lion on the new systems is slightly >> different from the Lion being shipped via the AppStore. >> >> One important new feature that is only available on the new Air's and Mini's >> is the option-command-R at boot. This will download a copy of Lion from the >> Apple even if the recovery partition has been corrupted or destroyed. >> >> The complaints I hear now remind me very much of when Apple decided to ship >> the first iMac computers with a CD and no floppy of any kind. People kept >> asking about how software installs would work... I don't believe that >> affordable high speed network access is sufficiently available at this time, >> but perhaps Apple is just a wee bit ahead of their time once again. There >> were options when the floppy was dropped as standard and there are options >> now for the optical storage. We won't really know if the dropping of Apple >> optical media was a mistake or just another branch in the evolution of the >> computer. One thing is definitely true, and that is it will save Apple on >> not only the initial hardware but on repairs to the fragile drives. I would >> expect that everybody in this group knows somebody who had a optical drive >> stop working. >> >> Jonathan >> >> On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: >> >>> Hi Nic >>> >>> It's worth pointing out again that the DVD option doesn't work on the >>> server hardware. >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> On 30 Jul 2011, at 17:57, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Yeah, the button is definitely there. I've done it, too, but it's kind of a >>> roundabout way of performing a clean install. The fastest way I've found so >>> far was to burn it to a DVD, then use Disk utilities on that DVD to format >>> the drive and install the operating system. Installing OS X Lion, then >>> launching its recovery partition only to reformat, then download the image >>> off of Apple's servers seems ridiculous, even though that seems to be the >>> method Apple even recommends. I guess, in truth, it was meant as an upgrade >>> from Snow Leopard to Lion given its distribution through the App Store, and >>> I can see why. Since the Recovery Partition it carves out needs the >>> Application later in order to get access to the disk image on your internal >>> drive, it can't format the drive nor reinstall it from scratch without a >>> DVD or downloading a new installer. 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