Superdrive

[george]

My new 27in iMac  as you know does not have a external drive and I am toying with the idea of buying one.
I am hearing good/bad reports, on the down side there is no eject button and am also hearing that it when asked to eject it can be
a bit iffy and yet there are those that consider it to be the next best thing to sliced bread. I do know that one of illustrious committee members owns one and it sits snugly under the screen.
Advice or suggestions please.
George

[daryl66]

QUOTE(george @ Nov 7 2016, 01:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My new 27in iMac  as you know does not have a external drive and I am toying with the idea of buying one.
I am hearing good/bad reports, on the down side there is no eject button and am also hearing that it when asked to eject it can be
a bit iffy and yet there are those that consider it to be the next best thing to sliced bread. I do know that one of illustrious committee members owns one and it sits snugly under the screen.
Advice or suggestions please.
George

George: I purchased one about 3 years ago for a "switcher" friend who uses it with her Mac Mini. No issues  that I am aware of.
Plays as advertised. HTH

Daryl  

[tacit]

QUOTE(george @ Nov 7 2016, 07:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My new 27in iMac  as you know does not have a external drive and I am toying with the idea of buying one.
I am hearing good/bad reports, on the down side there is no eject button and am also hearing that it when asked to eject it can be
a bit iffy and yet there are those that consider it to be the next best thing to sliced bread. I do know that one of illustrious committee members owns one and it sits snugly under the screen.
Advice or suggestions please.
George

My experience is this:

There are a lot of external optical drives on the market that all look pretty much like Apple SuperDrives. The genuine Apple article is more expensive than the lookalikes, but is much better made.

All the drives I've seen that have dodgy ejects (including my external drive) are cheap third-party drives. I personally have never seen a genuine Apple SuperDrive that has problems ejecting.

You can usually spot the difference pretty easily. Even though they look the same, Apple drives have metal enclosures; third-party lookalikes are most often plastic. The plastic is not as stiff as metal and the drive can flex, causing eject problems.

[Reiddm]

QUOTE(george @ Nov 7 2016, 06:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My new 27in iMac  as you know does not have a external drive and I am toying with the idea of buying one.
I am hearing good/bad reports, on the down side there is no eject button and am also hearing that it when asked to eject it can be
a bit iffy and yet there are those that consider it to be the next best thing to sliced bread. I do know that one of illustrious committee members owns one and it sits snugly under the screen.
Advice or suggestions please.
George

Yes there is no eject, I have run external drives on my Mac's using solid state drives for quite some time now and as far as I'm concerned they are worth it! Never tried the CD/DVD version though!

[george]

BEEN AND GONE AND BOUGHT  AND INSTALLED THE SAID SUPERDRIVE AND IT WORKS AND EJECTS JUST FINE.
 Thank you TS
George
p.s
I was of the impression that any company that was supplied by Apple there was a condition of not selling below price set by Apple.
The price quoted by Apple store (locally) was £79.00 yet I bought it from PC World store  (locally) for £65.00
has Apple changed their policy?

[Xairbusdriver]

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The price quoted by Apple store (locally) was £79.00 yet I bought it from PC World store (locally) for £65.00

Probably just that Brexit thing (you may have heard, by now, that the US of A has done something similar)...
or, you may have bought one of those plastic-cased models!

I've heard that the Pound Store (British version of a Dollar Store?) now sells certain Toblerone chocolate bars with small portions but the rest of the EU still has the larger sizes.

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Some even quipped that it left the chocolate bar looking like a “knock-off” of itself, or a bicycle stand.