The question is, will other makers follow suit and remove rotating medias from their products? More importantly, what exactly does the new iMac tell us about a Tim Cook Apple? Then again, every Apple customer has always been an early adopter in every sense of the word. With the revamped all-in-one desktop, club Cupertino risks alienating the old-fashioned types by inconveniencing their daily computing, at least until the rest of the industry catches up.

The new iMac without a built-in optical drive is the perfect epitome of such forward-thinking that, however, isn’t without its pitfalls. I guess you could say the company invented it. The WinToUSB takes such longer because of how it extracts files into their directories (instead of just doing a file copy), but it has made getting Windows installed on crappy WinPCs a cake walk.Apple is no stranger to abandoning features it thinks are heading for the graveyard of technology. MS offers an option for the former, but usually it comes back saying it couldn't make the drive bootable. The first one is great for taking, say, a Win ISO and making it into a football flash drive, and the latter will allow you to take a Win ISO and make it into a pre-installed OS-not just an installer-that you can then put into into another machine. Pretty clever.PS: Segue, for those that are looking that are looking for slick ways to get Win ISO and installations without having to burn bootable DVDs, Ive had a lot of success with the following apps:

I was surprised to see this is possible over a LAN with a WinPC. I almost didn't click on this article because 1) this hasn't been an issue for me in a very long time, and 2) I thought it was a well-worn topic built into macOS since around the MacBook Air launch.

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