Reviews for Apple USB SuperDrive

It's convenient and necessary seeing that most macs are loosing optical drives but it's about time apple adds blu-ray support.

This is a very usefull product, especially for people who have a mac book air without a disc incertion. :)

Even after reading some of the reviews, I bought the superdrive, plugged it in and found it works perfect on my 15' Mac Book Pro Retina Display. I find the cord a perfect length and have had no issues with any disk ejecting, this is a great product that is fast, simple to use, and works as advertised.

I brought the SuperDrive for my Mac mini 2011 model. It works just great.

I am a new Apple computer user, and I purchased a MacBook Air. I watch a lot of movies on my computer, and to play them, I purchased The USB Superdrive because I am a strong supporter of Apple products. This product did not live up to Apple quality. For movies, this device is extremely difficult to use. If the movie has a scratch on it, the entire computer will freeze and their is no easy way to eject the CD from the drive. Without a external eject button, it is hard to safely remove the disk. For the price, it's not worth the hassle.

I only played about 30 DVDs on this before it died. Set aside about $3/DVD for its replacement.

Since durability is the most important factor, two stars is all I can justify despite its typical Apple awesome appearance and minimalist design.

do not buy this product.
it doesn't reliably reject discs,
no strategy consistently works to solve it.
sometimes it rejects the disc upon shutdown, but usually not
you can't tell whether there's a disc in there or not
sometimes a disc will show up by disc name as if it were a drive
sometimes the superdrive will show up as a device, even if there's a disc
either way it shows up, if it does at all, sometime the disc can't be ejected
it doesn't work with a hub
the cord is too short
it drains the battery very fast, even if its not being used
Technical term for this device is TPoS. Do not buy.

Purchased this drive to install Win7 on my new 2012 MacBook Air with Mountain Lion on it and was quite a bit hesitant after all the negative reviews of it but I knew I needed it for what I had to do. Anyway got it in the mail today and all I can say is things went perfectly from the start to finish without a single problem. Maybe a small bit of humming and viberation while I had it sitting on a mouse pad when it was installing Windows from my Windows Disc. After Win7 was done and installed I then ejected the disc from Win7 OS and rebooted back to Mountain Lion for the burning of a DVD with the Drivers & Update support for my Windows that I installed. Well I followed all the prompts, installed my blank DVD-RW to have the content burned to Disc and that perfectly fine as well, with no problem what so ever. I then shut down from Mountain Lion, booted back into Windows and inserted the new Disc that was just burned with the Driver & Update support and that too went perfectly fine and really quite well. I have nothing to complain about at all about the USB Driver other than it does what it's suppose to do without any problems at all (For me anyway). Maybe these drives could be a luck of the draw on if you get a perfectly working one or a lemon one but I can't see or understand why so many people seem to be having trouble with them.

Oh and for the people mentioning the cable being a bit on the short side I personally find it being perfectly fine and also gives a good fair amount of space for the drive and Notebook when paired together. A cable any longer would just be a plain eyesore and would leave alot of unnecessary clutter around the work area.

I gave this review a FULL 5 STARS after it's great functionality & workmanship.

It lets me play and burn cds and dvds on my Macbook Air. That's all I expected from it.

Works great for me . Not sure why people complain about the usb cable length. If it was any longer It would be in the way more than anything.