Heck, look at some of the shit being made now. I don't know whether to laugh or pour a 40 for it.
PETA's such a gaggle of sanctimonious goofwads. They don't even offer no-kill shelters. There's so many ways they could've conveyed the message, rather than showing that being a vegan turns you into a violent jackhammer in the sack. I guess being tasteful and informative is not really PETA's bag.
I don't want the internet as my secondary hard drive. I have online accounts for archiving, but I also want the extra room for content for offline use as well.
No optical seems like something most likely to happen, but I would not phase this out on the bigger machines just yet. HOWEVER, this could provide a nice little opportunity to take advantage of the extra space. If you take away the optical, you have to provide the option to put a second hard drive. I would take the second hard drive in a heartbeat. You're going to have to throw more than just lighter weight and slimmer form factor to make its removal meaningful.
I guess I can deal with no Ethernet, as I almost never use mine, but requiring another dongle could knock off points.
I can see no Firewire, but no Firewire would be much nicer if that came with USB 3 as the tradeoff.
For the most part, if the ports are going to get simplified, the one thing that I'd really love to see is a bit of a redesign in the USB layout. One of the Macbook Pro's most irksome flaws is how close they are together. If you remove the Firewire and Ethernet ports, they should be farther apart, aside from being greater in number.
The huge trackpad doesn't really make sense to me. For the most part, the big trackpad on the Macbook line does such a great job, I don't see how that extra space would really be terribly practical.