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		mmarx on March 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new MacBook My old Thinkpad X41 didn't have an optical drive ten years ago, back in 2005, and, unlike a netbook, was very much a fully-functional laptop computer.

megablast on March 9, 2015 [–]

The x21 didn't have an optical drive either, nor the x31 before it.

Of course, one could argue they were specialist laptops which never had a large market. But maybe the same could be said of the MBA?

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