Dear Aunt TUAW: Burn baby burn

If Apple is killing the CD, why do all their computers still come with superdrives? I for one would rather a SSD instead of a superdrive. At least a SSD would get used more than twice a year.

Looks like I am the only one who read this as tongue-in-cheek...

It is available in the File menu. There's an item that says "Burn playlist to disc"

You're right, physical media is definitely dead. That's why I installed Snow Leopard, Leopard, Office 2008, Final Cut, Logic Studio, iLife 09 and many others from my magic wand instead of plastic discs. I'm so glad everyone has switched to magic wands. It makes everything so much easier.

I have almost all my music on CD. I hardly ever buy from online (maybe 3-4 tunes ever). I have completely re-ripped my CD library a couple of times when the compression schemes got better and when I got more hard drive space. I'm a old geezer and even with old geezer ears I can hear the difference from the CD and the compressed file formats. I am about to re-rip again since the drive cost are low enough to rip in lossless (I have over 400 CDs easily). I may even go AIFF. If you buy a tune online it is very seldom you can re-download a better version without paying some more for the privilege to do it. I buy used CDs most of the time and they can be bought cheap though of course not as cheap as online but worth it to me.

I always buy my music on CD: it's not copy protected, it's in higher quality (AIFF, not compressed mp3) and you get the sleeve notes. I might play it on my Mac, but CDs are definitely not dead. I also burn playlists to CD to keep in my car; if the car is broken into, I don't lose anything valuable.

cd/dvd are dying.

As far as buying music goes, I switched back to buying CDs after getting tired of the poor audio quality of downloads and streams. Almost half of my iTunes library is encoded in lossless, but I'd say I'm in the minority here. The physical art that comes with a CD is also part of the value for me. Maybe I'm too old-school.

iMacs will still have disc drives because the space is not at a premium with those huge displays and itty bitty internals but I won't be surprised when the Macbooks are lacking them

My beef is...
When I buy music, I like to removed the DRM!!

Burn to CD -> Place back on MAC = DRM Free