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huh?   

here's what i would like to see..

how much are the drives used in laptops? are they that much more than standard drives? if not... why couldn't they be used in the towers? and made to be slot loaders... dual or tripple slot loaders on a tower would take up about as much room as one standard drive.... and I HATE TRAYS!!! it would make a nice cosmettic change and would save space inside...

I was dropped on my head

I would rather have a DVR-105 that burns DVD-Rs twice as fast as what Apple offers in one bay, or the new Sony drive that burns both DVD-R and DVD+R, and a 52X CD-RW in the other so I could burn a CD in 2 minutes... wouldn't you? 

And in my 3rd bay I'd want a 16X DVD-ROM drive and run DVD X Copy (www.321studios.com) and make my own massive library of DVDs on the fly thanks to www.netflix.com

Or yeah, you could spend $100 too much on an outdated combo drive in an Apple that has only one eject key.

And in my 3rd bay I'd want a 16X DVD-ROM drive and run DVD X Copy (www.321studios.com) and make my own massive library of DVDs on the fly thanks to www.netflix.com

Man, all that DVD swapping must be great.

Apple were pretty late to the party, but the new wind tunnel towers feature dual 5.25" drive bays.

Hmm... what we need now is to hear from some complete turkey about how PCs are and always will be better because they allow 10,000 drives to be simultaneously burning CDs and DVDs at orbital velocities near to light speed.

Ask and ye shall receive.  Zardoz's box of heads has returned.  He must be a dialup connection or else he would have been IP banned by now.

(kind of a rant from recent window shopping [pun])

Wow isn't it nice to see a computer with both a DVD drive and a CD-RW drive?  I mean, they could have put them both together into the combo drive, but I guess people want two drive bays now, don't they?  Also, I guess it's more important to watch DVD's rather than store 4.6 GB worth of data (either DVD or data).

Quite Frankly combo drives suck for anything except laptops. 
They are slow, they are expenive, and they make it harder to burn Disk to disk. 
In fact my biggest single complaint about my 733 quicksilver was the fact that I could not add a second drive without Going postal on it with a Dremel tool.