Reviews for Apple USB SuperDrive

I bought this or my Macbook Air after the computer came and I realized to my astonishment that there is no CD drive in the laptop! (I love the idea of striving to make it lighter/thinner but not in sacrificing necessary parts of the computer to do so... and then charging for an overpriced exterior version!)

This drive works impeccably well I will say. But the design is awful. There are no buttons on the drive itself which makes it simplistic, yes, but whenever I run into a software issue and the computer doesn't recognize the disk I've inserted THERE IS NO WAY TO REMOVE IT. That's just ridiculously frustrating. And the photo on the site doesn't show the cord, but it's pathetically short. I will need to be investing in an extension USB cord now because when you sit with your laptop on your lap and wish to use to super-drive, there's not enough room to set it anywhere and so it hangs by your side only to possibly get damaged.

Also I wish there was some kind of case for this drive! I have no way to protect it from scratches.

In short, product good, design very, very bad.

This machine does what it's supposed to do. I haven't run into any problems with it and it works really fast and dependable.

What I don't understand however is why Apple would take this out as part of the deal with buying a Mac Pro. CDs are still a very important part of in society, and to take something out that was previously part of a computer is silly. $80 is exspensive when you're already buying a new computer. Plus it doesn't offer Blue Ray. I absolutely had to buy it allow me to install my educational disk of CS6. Apple does not help its customers in saving money and tries to nickel and dime every little thing now. Also, the chord needs to be longer, or at least be blue tooth or something so it is not always in my way.