Why drive a disk;

Apple's Phil Schiller, Vice President of marketing, showing off the new iMac ultra-thin at Apple's launch event in October.New innovation can spell the beginning of the end for new iMac shipping DVD drivesApple last week to not keep driveCloud light stream and download faster wayApple crab for the first time be able to 5-inch disk, a floppy disk.

(CNN) --can the phrase "burn a disc" will soon be interred in the tomb of the computer. Place the 8-bit songbokrafik and service of dial-up modems hum buzzing?

Some technology analysts, along with some of the most influential computer makers in the world. Optical disk drive? answer Yes, use valuable space in our ever shrinking gadgets and the ability to stream music or movies on demand have made CDs and DVDs is not necessary.

Rotation of the disk drive's obscurity may have started swirling earlier last week.

Apple's new IMac desktop computer, 50, was released on Friday for the first time. There is no disc drive. The trend has already started on some laptops such as Apple's MacBook Air and of course with the handheld smartphones and tablets. This machine.

"Over time, the dimming of seeing history as a floppy disk, said Michael Gartenberg, research company Gartner industry with technical analysis, Inc.

According to Apple's sleeker and thinner is always off. Disk drive data transfer is no brainer.

"These older technologies will catch us back to Phil Schiller, marketing. Apple's Chief told CNN's sister publication time. "they're the anchor to where we want to go. We found things that have outlived their useful purpose-our competitors are afraid to remove them. We are trying to find better solutions for our customers, we have-so much trust.

If a company's storage history on what is an optical disk drive Mac Edition may be doomed for a 5-inch floppy dumped 3.5 inches, and the first one first iMac has no floppy disk drive.

"The long-term trend is clear, but Apple's always proactive about this movement speed, which in contrast to later, Gartenberg said.

The little Mac Mini's for the record has been free since last year disk drive.

Sony has already announced that it will stop making optical drive itself and introduce Microsoft Windows 8 version of the operating system that runs on Smartphones and tablets, laptops, free disk and PC. The computer giant will be a good position for such a move.

For some users the Web habit and start trending from the action that is necessary to have an external media.

CD audio streaming or downloadable, digital, DVD, Netflix, Amazon or other online movie website, a wide range of video game digital distribution, such as a steam bath, and more. Download from major games and console manufacturers.

"It is a personal cloud service becomes. Increase broadband speeds and ubiquitous There is very little reason for consumers to use optical drives in their computers forward, Gartenberg said.

There is always a chance that the USB port is required for external devices (Apple. The rider of the disk drive, it is worth an external light for $ 79).

So much that Google offers Google drive, Apple has embraced cloud computing with the iCloud, which allows users to store documents, photos, music and movies on the Web server, move to the cloud may refer to the internal storage is less of a concern for those on the go.

Combined with advances in data capture within the "solid state" and broadband speed is fast to download and streaming pain less. As the DVD era can grease skids apples and competitors to make the computer more and more light and inexpensive.

Visit the new Chromebooks laptop that uses Google's Chrome system that depends on cloud, especially for around $ 250 for sale.

In order to ensure The change may be rough for some users.

"For those of you who still owns a DVD and want to see them in their computers, iMac is not suitable of Fortune JP Mangalindan wrote in the opinion of the new iMac" course. The External SuperDrive is $ 79, which is connected via USB cable but if shelling out more for-face it-a feature that still comes standard on most PCs, it also means messing with the smallest set of iMac.

But like it or not, people still pop in the disc may not have long to do it.

"While it may be over the optical drive that really is dead, write Chris Pirillo Lockergnome blog network founder," it is certainly showing all the symptoms of a range of technologies.

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