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Before 2012 Apple will (start to) phase out the CD/DVD drives from all it's MacBooks.

Created by TheScholar on 2010-10-16; known on 2012-01-01; judged wrong by PseudonymousUser on 2012-01-02.

  • TheScholar estimated 95% on 2010-10-16
  • gwern estimated 60% and said “already gone from things like Mac Air, no?on 2010-10-17
  • TheScholar changed their prediction from “Before 2012 Apple will (start to) phase out the CD/DVD drives from it's MacBooks.” on 2010-10-17
  • TheScholar said “The prediction is that in due time Apple will no longer offer any MacBook with internal superdrive. I’ve edited the prediction to reflect this.on 2010-10-17
  • gimpf estimated 60% on 2010-12-12
  • TheScholar estimated 55% on 2011-03-17
  • TheScholar said “It may take a little bit longer then I thought.on 2011-03-17
  • TheScholar estimated 99% and said “The method of distribution of Lion and missing CD/DVD drive in the latest Mac mini seems to support this prediction? The 1% doubt is "when"…on 2011-07-20
  • PseudonymousUser said “Apple still advertises the SuperDrive on their MacBook Pro: https://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.htmlon 2012-01-02
  • PseudonymousUser   judged this prediction wrong on 2012-01-02.