You know what was a most appropriate news during yesterday’s Back to a Mac eventuality? The MacBook Air’s Software Reinstall Drive, that finally spells the finish of a clunky visual drive.

Apple likes to dump aged tech as early as probable. The floppy drive is a classical e.g., as well as caused the fuss when it was left out of the strange Bondi BLue iMac. FireWire has been on life-support these final couple of years, flickering in as well as out of life on Apple’s portables. And while a original Air had no way to bucket a CD or DVD, you still had to make use of a single via the slow and clunky DVD or CD Sharing feature which let you “wirelessly ‘borrow’ a optical drive of the nearby Mac or PC” to implement program.

Now, yet, it is probable to buy an Mac as well as never have to understanding with spinning media again. Hell, you can’t even buy a MacBook Air with a hard-drive anymore: inside, a usually thing which moves is a air blower and a clicking trackpad.

So the bundled restore DVD has been transposed with the typically in vogue USB hang, something which will positively come to alternative Mac in the future. And good riddance to this battery-sucking, space-gobbling square of bequest tech. Who needs it? Hell, it’s quicker to download the film these days than it is to slice the DVD.

The a single irony here is that a brand-new iLife apartment, additionally announced yesterday, is usually available upon DVD. Because iLife, unlike iWork, does not require the serial series for activation, there’s no download accessible. Maybe subsequent year, iLife 12 will come upon the USB hang, too.

What’s in a Box (MacBook Air) [Apple]