I don’t miss my DVD Drive

June 25th, 2008

A few months ago I bought a Macbook Air intending to use it as my main machine. It replaced a venerable 5 year old powerbook which had served me well but was somewhat heavy and feeling a little long in the tooth.
One of the things I thought about was that the air has no DVD drive. There’s some fiddly wireless magic you can pull to get access to the DVD drive on another machine in the house and given the number of macs we have I thought that would be plenty. Still, at the store I kind of wondered if I should buy the $99 superdrive accessory. I didn;t and I’m really glad I didn’t. In 3 or 4 months of solid everyday use I’ve never needed to use a CD-Rom once.
Physical media is dead. Books are going vanish. Can’t remember the last time I bought a CD. I get my newspapers on-line (really I rarely read them then either – news if filtered and categorised and I only see what I want to see – willful ignorance). As it becomes cheaper to make everything virtual and give us access to it anywhere, what else will vanish?

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