Apple does sell an external super drive, but I would not get it for a couple reasons. Apparently it only works with the macbook air or the new mac mini. I would get something like a plextor or another brand. The other issue I have with Apple's drive is, apparently the USB cable is hard wired in to the drive. So if your cable has a problem, you're sunk. Most other drives use a regular usb cable, if the cable has problems, simply replace the cable. On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Chris Moore wrote:
> Personally, I think they should have put a blu-ray player in it, especially > now as the mini has HDMI. Would make the perfect little media server. > > But to remove the DVD and keep it the same size? crazy. Do Apple sell > external DVD drives? or do you have to get a third party model? > > I fancy grabbing a new iMac next year, hope they do not remove the drive from > there. > On 31 Jul 2011, at 03:44, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> I can understand somewhat not including a DVD drive with themacbook air, >> many computers of that size do not include these. But I think removing the >> DVD drive from the mac mini is going too far. There will probably come a >> time when disks will no longer be used, but we are not there yet. I still >> use dvd drives quite a bit, even it's for playing audio disks. >> On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: >> >>> Hi Jonathan >>> >>> Actually you're mistaken about the Command+R option, it works on every Lion >>> installation on every machine I believe. Certainly it works on our 2009 >>> MacBook Pro, my work machines and also their Mac Pros. >>> >>> But I believe that, although Apple is pushing the bounds, they're pushing >>> things too far too fast. The reason is simple: As you quite rightly say, >>> the availability of uncapped high-speed Internet connectivity is sparse in >>> places and it turns the availability of Lion into a bit of what we'd call a >>> "Post Code (you'd call it a zip code) lottery. >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> >>> On 30 Jul 2011, at 20:56, Jon Cohn wrote: >>> >>> Gordon, >>> >>> What I have read is that this is true with all of the hardware that was >>> shipped with Lion on it. Apparently the Lion on the new systems is >>> slightly different from the Lion being shipped via the AppStore. >>> >>> One important new feature that is only available on the new Air's and >>> Mini's is the option-command-R at boot. This will download a copy of Lion >>> from the Apple even if the recovery partition has been corrupted or >>> destroyed. >>> >>> The complaints I hear now remind me very much of when Apple decided to ship >>> the first iMac computers with a CD and no floppy of any kind. People kept >>> asking about how software installs would work... I don't believe that >>> affordable high speed network access is sufficiently available at this >>> time, but perhaps Apple is just a wee bit ahead of their time once again. >>> There were options when the floppy was dropped as standard and there are >>> options now for the optical storage. We won't really know if the dropping >>> of Apple optical media was a mistake or just another branch in the >>> evolution of the computer. One thing is definitely true, and that is it >>> will save Apple on not only the initial hardware but on repairs to the >>> fragile drives. I would expect that everybody in this group knows somebody >>> who had a optical drive stop working. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Nic >>>> >>>> It's worth pointing out again that the DVD option doesn't work on the >>>> server hardware. >>>> >>>> Gordon >>>> >>>> On 30 Jul 2011, at 17:57, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Yeah, the button is definitely there. I've done it, too, but it's kind of >>>> a roundabout way of performing a clean install. The fastest way I've found >>>> so far was to burn it to a DVD, then use Disk utilities on that DVD to >>>> format the drive and install the operating system. Installing OS X Lion, >>>> then launching its recovery partition only to reformat, then download the >>>> image off of Apple's servers seems ridiculous, even though that seems to >>>> be the method Apple even recommends. I guess, in truth, it was meant as an >>>> upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion given its distribution through the App >>>> Store, and I can see why. Since the Recovery Partition it carves out needs >>>> the Application later in order to get access to the disk image on your >>>> internal drive, it can't format the drive nor reinstall it from scratch >>>> without a DVD or downloading a new installer. 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