An external drive should be fine. I got one off eBay for my MacBook Pro which has no DVD drive. It was a cheap one and worked fine but about 1/3 the speed when ripping CDs compared to Apple’s.
Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 1 Aug 2020, at 08:56, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there. > > My 2011 iMac has finally stopped playing DVDs. It as been a bit hit and miss > for ages - I’ve used a can of compressed air a few times over the past couple > of years to jog it back into life but now it really is just refusing to play > anything. This morning I read online to wrap a credit card in a specsaver > type of cloth and gently insert that into the slot and move it around a bit > to see if that helped. It didn’t. Nothing plays at all. > > As it is an elderly machine, I don’t think it will be worth having the unit > replaced - even if this is possible - and I wondered it an external USB DVD > drive would work? I thought I would ask before splashing out on one just in > case they don’t work at all … > > Thank you! > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/E10E8D5A-F366-4B54-A4B9-652077214D21%40mac.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/F4C5BB3A-02D2-4FF9-9E5A-3DB28E3AA7FD%40icloud.com.
