Beat Apple to making optical media obsolete, and speed up your Mac in the process

Apr 5, 2012 15:11 GMT  ·  By

Let’s face it, the compact disc is soon to take its place in the hall of fame next to vinyl records. And if anyone’s going to make the first move to ditch this hardware from all of its computers, it’s going to be Apple.

But why not beat them to it? If you no longer fancy that optical drive in your MacBook, you can tell the people at MCE Technologies to hit you up with the OptiBay Drive, which replaces your system's internal SuperDrive (DVD drive) with a high-performance SATA hard drive or SSD up to 1TB.

More storage does not only mean more space to store your stuff, it also means a faster Mac.

Each OptiBay Drive comes with a free external portable enclosure for your SuperDrive, which suggests you’ll still be able to use it whenever a disc comes along with important software that you need to dump on your Mac. Full specs and pricing can be found here.