Luckily, with Internet speeds and bandwidth ever increasing, and other portable media becoming more economical, it's perfectly possible to live without a built-in optical drive these days. After all, CD's and DVD's has become the de-facto standard for software distribution, and although its importance is waning by the day, it's still heavily used. Labeling the optical drive as redundant might be seen as a bold move from Apple.
Instead of a regular hard drive disk, the MacBook Air has a (moderately more expensive) SSD drive, and the optical CD/DVD drive has been removed entirely.
In fact, ever since Apple set the trend with its MacBook Air, the ultrabook genre has been gaining ground in the Windows scene.īut you don't get a laptop as thin and light as the MacBook Air without making compromises.
The MacBook Air is one of the thinnest and lightest computers available today thin as your finger, and so light every computer after will feel like you're hauling a sack of potatoes.
