Comments on: Do we need a mini-disk Adapter from Apple?

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:58:04 +0000

Many business people are placing their business cards, catalogs, etc. on mini-CDs. As mentioned above by Bryan Gibson, the mini-DVDs used by camcorders won’t work in most Macs. That’s a problem for a company which promotes itself as the best choice for consumer and prosumer video editing.

I doubt Apple would start distributing software on mini-DVDs simply to save a few dollars on discs. Customers would be upset that they have to buy an adapter, or Apple would have to offer both sizes, which makes no sense and increases costs rather than reduce them.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:52:40 +0000

Blu-ray….

By: Bryan Gibson

Bryan Gibson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:42:05 +0000

Some camcorders write directly to these mini-DVDs. I can’t do anything with them on my Macbook, so I have to have a PC friend rip the DVD and burn it to a regular sized DVD. Pain in the ass.

Do we need an adapter? Hell yes.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:50:21 +0000

Maybe for a new type of Mac SubBook?

By: krye

krye — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:36:47 +0000

@Steve

True.

My wife’s computer at work needed a software patch for a medical billing program that they use. The comany send out the patche on a 512M thumb drive. Very cool. (I got to keep it after the installation!)

I know 512M is nothing to write home about, but the fact that they can just give them away may be a sign of things to come.

By: krye

krye — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:32:20 +0000

Very silly. Very silly indeed. CDRs/DVDs nowadays are pretty much free. (Free after rebate, anyway.) At most, they are pennies-a-peice, if you shop around. And that’s retail pricing. Apple probably gets their media for a fraction of that.

Those mini-CDs/DVDs still cost a premium. I can’t see how Apple would save money by distrubuting software on those litttle CDs/DVDs; and then add the cost of an adaptor to it? I don’t see the point, or the savings. I think it’s way cheaper to keep using the 12cm ones.

Although, if the capacity was to increase, I think a mini 4+ Gig version with a mini USB/Firewire external burner would be really cool! That would be nice to keep in a laptop case if an upcoming MacBook was to ship w/o a Superdrive!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:21:38 +0000

I doubt they would alienate regular sized cd’s by forcing only smaller ones in their computers. I think something more likely would be no drive at all and use memory sticks. Its only a matter of time before the disc world is dead.