In my experience it only worked with a single adapter, not a multi adapter --when I connected one to my friends M1 MacBook Air last year--so perhaps that was your issue.
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Apple's Old-School SuperDrive Is Out of Stock and Unlikely to Return
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I miss the days when cars were made of metal and women without graffiti. 🤷♂️
I did something similar with an old iMac years ago. I removed the Superdrive to make room for an SSD. I bought an enclosure for the Superdrive for about $20. I still have it just in case.
The “SuperDrive” was never good.
I still make regular use of a number of different optical drives in day to day use both for personal and professional reasons. The SuperDrive isn’t one of them.
I don’t see any reason why a drive would need to be portable in this day and age - we’re not in the era of anybody needing an optical drive on the go anymore. More of a tool that would be stationary in someone’s office or studio.
Buy a good full-size 5.25” drive and a USB enclosure and be done with it. Choose wisely and you can even get one capable of ripping 4K UHD blu rays to hard drive.
I still make regular use of a number of different optical drives in day to day use both for personal and professional reasons. The SuperDrive isn’t one of them.
I don’t see any reason why a drive would need to be portable in this day and age - we’re not in the era of anybody needing an optical drive on the go anymore. More of a tool that would be stationary in someone’s office or studio.
Buy a good full-size 5.25” drive and a USB enclosure and be done with it. Choose wisely and you can even get one capable of ripping 4K UHD blu rays to hard drive.
Looking forward to SuperDrive Pro (Max?) USB-C Edition with Blu-ray support
I guess that at this point Apple is just selling whatever stock they have remaining. I would like an official statement from Apple, however.
The small attractive drive felt comforting to have on hand when I migrated from a white plastic MacBook to a MacBook Pro in 2013, but it was rarely used, so now it lives in friend's "just in case" bag.
I have another USB CD drive although not hooked up. To be honest, the only thing I worry about with the disappearance of CD drives is the ability to burn CDs to iTunes. Not everything I own is available on Apple Music so there is still stuff in my collection I'd need to manually add.
WRONG, works fine w/ my Silicon Mac.
I had a bit of trouble with Blurays on macOS. I just want to extract the video without all the unskippable garbage and Java based menus. There apparently is no free Bluray player for macOS. Apple also apparently hates Blurays, especially now that they rent movies themselves.
Do you use Handbrake and MakeMKV? Maybe you can recommend me the software you use?
Go to Other World Computing. https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-storage#drive-type:optical-drives
While not as sleek as the Apple drive you can have Blu-ray. I've had one for years now to rip discs on to my Plex server.
Those are some first world worries there, Lou. (In my best Chief Wiggum voice)
I can't count how many times I've re purchased legacy media in music and video over the years. VHS gave way to the DVD. DVD was SO AWESOME when it came out. Who would watch a movie on VHS? Then Blu Ray came out and made DVD look like VHS. Now we have 4K streaming.
Would ANYONE wany to watch their favorite movie from the 70's on VHS with a 4K or better TV? I can only imagine what Close Encounters or Star Wars would look like on a 30 year old VHS on a 4K TV. That's if you have a VHS player and the tape doesn't snap in the transit or the head when you're playing it. Talk about a crappy experience.
I'm working on a classic Mustang right now that has a factory CD player and cassette deck in it. A friggin' cassette deck! Now, I'm old enough to remember having giant cases of store purchased cassettes and mix tapes. Then later, a CD player with a cassette adaptor. Cassettes sucked. Period.
After getting the old gal mechanically sound, the next step is upgrading the sound system to something that can stream music over my phone so I can listen to Apple Music or XM on the app. I'm not about to yank out the CD's of yore and listen to music from the 90's I don't even like anymore. And I'm sure as heck not sitting down in front a computer and burning a CD that has at best 15 songs on it when I can make a play list on my phone and stream it over bluetooth.
Sometimes I don't understand this nostalgic attachment to legacy media. I guess I kinda get the vinyl thing. Vinyl has an analog sound all its own that digital media can't really replicate. Other than that, the quality of digital streaming media pretty much outperforms legacy media in all categories with the exception of a few users with unique circumstances.
Sure, there's a chance that some movie or media you buy will be lost to a bankruptcy or closure of a digital provider, but those chances are pretty slim, and you'll probably either lose the ability to play your legacy media wherever you want or simply want higher quality before that happens.
That's nonsense. I have one and it works fine with my M1 MBP.
I bought one last year because I found some old data cds I burned ages ago. People tend to think that whatever the popular medium is will last forever--but it just doesn't and you end up checking archival stuff on physical media and often that on very old machinery. There are still some military and old operating industrial machinery that uses *floppy* drives.
I have a large DVD/Blu-ray collection and quite a few of the items I own on disc are just not available on the main streaming services (I subscribe to Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video). I'm glad I have the collection I do.
I also have a large CD collection but music streaming services are better so I don't use that much.
I also have a large CD collection but music streaming services are better so I don't use that much.
I have a buddy that does the BluRays. I will have to check with him and get back with you.
I did not get one by Apple, rather Samsung at a fraction of a price (usb dvd burner is usb dvd burner...) and can say the same. I needed it twice a year back before uni allowed digital submission. It's really one of those occasions where apple Xed something, got ridiculed for it but was actually right from the first moment. Unlike other times where everyone is just like WHHHHHY NO MAG SAFE WHHHHYYYY NO CLASSIC USB PORT WHHHYYY EVERYTHING IS DONGGLEEeeeee.
I have this Apple drive in my desk drawer. It comes out maybe once or twice every 2 years. Not sure if I have used it with my M1 Max or not yet, but not sure why it would not work with it. Simple and just works with great materials. I don't really care that Apple is discontinuing it, physical media died a while ago. There are also plenty of cheap to expensive options on Amazon. It was a great product for its time.
Yes they do. I use one on an Apple M1 iMac no problem.