Obsolescence?
Dec. 18th, 2001 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksWarning: Mac geek ruminations follow
Apple has announced, less than a month after I purchased Cassandra, that they're providing combo CD-RW/DVD drives in their Titanium Powerbooks, rather than the straight DVD which is in Cassandra. My initial reaction was, "Fuck, they couldn't tell me to wait a goddamn month?!?"
But calming down a bit, I sort of expected that Cassandra would be outclassed by her peers in about six months - Ziggy and Mike both lasted about that long. I didn't expect them to upgrade her model in less than a month, especially since they'd speed bumped the Powerbooks in October.
On reflection, do I really need a combo drive? Sure, it's nice to burn audio CDs with, but I don't do that all that often, and that being said, I have a perfectly serviceable, though slow external Iomega CD Burner which works fine. Also, if sheer desperation demands it, I could always use Dad's iBook, which has a combo drive in it already.
To be honest, if I really need a burner, I might actually be better off buying one of these external Firewire babies, powered from the bus, which means I can both read from a CD and write to one at the same time. In fact, I was looking at one anyway before this announcement came out.
The good news is, though, that Apple is apparently going to offer an upgrade path at US$299 for those who bought Powerbooks after October 16. The bad news is, that's only going to come in mid-January, it doesn't look confirmed, and I'm not sure if the Powerbooks here in Singapore will qualify. That being said, it's nice to have options open.
In the meantime, I'm still the owner of the coolest looking laptop on the face of the planet, CD-RW drive or no.
Apple has announced, less than a month after I purchased Cassandra, that they're providing combo CD-RW/DVD drives in their Titanium Powerbooks, rather than the straight DVD which is in Cassandra. My initial reaction was, "Fuck, they couldn't tell me to wait a goddamn month?!?"
But calming down a bit, I sort of expected that Cassandra would be outclassed by her peers in about six months - Ziggy and Mike both lasted about that long. I didn't expect them to upgrade her model in less than a month, especially since they'd speed bumped the Powerbooks in October.
On reflection, do I really need a combo drive? Sure, it's nice to burn audio CDs with, but I don't do that all that often, and that being said, I have a perfectly serviceable, though slow external Iomega CD Burner which works fine. Also, if sheer desperation demands it, I could always use Dad's iBook, which has a combo drive in it already.
To be honest, if I really need a burner, I might actually be better off buying one of these external Firewire babies, powered from the bus, which means I can both read from a CD and write to one at the same time. In fact, I was looking at one anyway before this announcement came out.
The good news is, though, that Apple is apparently going to offer an upgrade path at US$299 for those who bought Powerbooks after October 16. The bad news is, that's only going to come in mid-January, it doesn't look confirmed, and I'm not sure if the Powerbooks here in Singapore will qualify. That being said, it's nice to have options open.
In the meantime, I'm still the owner of the coolest looking laptop on the face of the planet, CD-RW drive or no.
