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External DVD/CD drive - Mountain Lion

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Nimm

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Jan 24, 2013
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Forgive me if this has been previously asked but I just got my IMac back from the "Shop Doc" - the internal CD/DVD drive is shot. I upgraded to Mountain Lion and had some problems with older devices. This has made me somewhat nervous about buying an external drive.
I will still be obtaining work via CD so need to read and perhaps write - we also used our Mac to watch DVDs.
Which drive would you recommend for/work well with Mountain Lion? (Not too $$ please...) I would prefer to order/pickup within Canada to avoid cross border charges.

Many thanks! :)
 
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Nimm said:
Forgive me if this has been previously asked but I just got my IMac back from the "Shop Doc" - the internal CD/DVD drive is shot. I upgraded to Mountain Lion and had some problems with older devices. This has made me somewhat nervous about buying an external drive.
I will still be obtaining work via CD so need to read and perhaps write - we also used our Mac to watch DVDs.
Which drive would you recommend for/work well with Mountain Lion? (Not too $$ please...) I would prefer to order/pickup within Canada to avoid cross border charges.

Many thanks! :)
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I've been using a Samsung Blu Ray drive in a external USB to SATA enclosure, works great.

If it worries you then just get the Apple external DVD drive.
 
Thanks Bill

blueroom said:
I've been using a Samsung Blu Ray drive in a external USB to SATA enclosure, works great.

If it worries you then just get the Apple external DVD drive.
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I'll check into what your are using.
Appreciate it, take care.
 
Nimm said:
I'll check into what your are using.
Appreciate it, take care.
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Any USB Optical drive will work. I use two different blu-ray drives (one is a full size in an enclosure and the other is generic slim usb drive). The only thing you MIGHT lose functionality of is iDVD movie player, but otherwise I have seen no ill-effects of using either drive in my computers.
 
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