What was Apple thinking when they made a computer without a hardware eject
button? That's crazy. I'm thinking it was more a matter of space than cost.
But holy cow, it sure is inconvenient.
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From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: ejecting disk with remote?
what keyboard do you have? if a windows keyboard, sadly, there is not.
if
you have an apple one with media keys, there is one.
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: ejecting disk with remote?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Heim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: ejecting disk with remote?
If I throw a party, I may want to use my Mac mini as a CD player. It's
very nice to be able to adjust the volume with the remot, pause, skip
tracks, etc. But I cannot figure out a way to eject the disk without the
keyboard. Is there one? There's no eject button on the Mac mini itself is
there? Is there at least a keyboard hotkey?
A little googling answered my last question:
"From time-to-time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can
refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods -- pressing the keyboard
eject key; using the Command-E keyboard combination; selecting the item in
the Finder and clicking the Eject button next to its name; dragging the
item to the trash;
or pressing the F12 key. "
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041011075232575
But I'd still like to do it without using the keyboard. I cannot believe
they'd manufacture a device w/o an eject button on the drive itself. That
seems crazy. I know it saves a few bucks on the cost of the machine but,
holy cow, an eject button seems kind of essential.
