i have had a complete horror story with my macbook and its superdrive.
i bought my macbook last august. after a few months, the superdrive starting burning and importing at abnormally slow speeds (according to the geniuses at the genius bar, 7x is the absolute minimum it should go for importing). usually it would get stuck on songs on cds with the smallest, trivial scratches on them (a problem i have read about in other threads on this board).
anyway, they replaced the drive. i got home excited, and tried to import a cd the minute i got home, and the same problem happened. furious, i immediately returned to the applestore, where my drive continued to have problems. the genius fiddled with a thing or two and said to restart. unfortunately, my macbook never woke up.

not a problem, the computer was new with little to no data on it. they gave me a new computer.
i have had this computer for about 6 months now. a few days ago, the drive stopped burning cds. i would try to burn a playlist in itunes and the burn time would go up and up and up (instead of down!) and then the computer would spit out the cd with a pop-up error saying the device is ****ed.
i brought my computer in, they saw the problem, ordered a new superdrive. i picked up my computer today from the store, and came home to find that the superdrive in this computer is exhibiting the same symptoms as the one before it.
tomorrow i am going to the apple store to get SUPER DRIVE #5.
FIVE SUPERDRIVES.
i am sick of this. all I want to do is check my email, type the occasional word document, and burn cds, and these "computers" keep ****ing up.
my parents have a $200 desktop pc they got at bestbuy which has had less glitches than this macbook.
i feel as though i have been very patient through this absurd sequence of events, but i am praying PRAYING PRAYING that they recall these awful superdrives.
for a company with such a pretentious ad campaign, you would expect better quality.
all things aside, i love my ipod mini!