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IвЂ™d guess that most people who download movies from the iTunes Store also have an HDTV, and why bother buying Blu-ray discs when you can get the movies from Apple without leaving your house (and know that theyвЂ™ll play on your Apple TV, Mac, and iOS device)? Outside of bandwidth, thereвЂ™s no good reason to opt for standard definition these days. But the obvious choice is, again, the iTunes Store for movies. Apple has chosen not to support Blu-ray playback on Macs-Steve Jobs in 2008 famously referred to Blu-rayвЂ™s licensing as вЂњ a bag of hurt,вЂќВ and the companyвЂ™s senior VP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, said pretty much the same to Harry McCracken at Time last week-so that lack of support is not a loss per se. You can use optical drives to play DVDs too, of course, and many Mac users did just that on their beautiful 27-inch iMacs. The lack of an optical drive might be the final nudge that gets people to look to the iTunes Store (or Amazon MP3, even) for their music instead of to their local record store (assuming they still actually have one). And while plenty of people buy music via download, there are still a lot of CD sales (not to mention built-up collections). Sure, you can buy an external optical drive-Apple sells its USB SuperDrive for $79, and you can get external CD/DVD drives from other brands for $30 or less. While removing the optical drive saves space-CDs and DVDs dictate the minimum size of such drives-it also means that owners of these new Macs can no longer rip CDs without a lot of extra work. (The Mac mini server released in 2009 also eschewed an optical drive, but servers donвЂ™t generally include them.) All of AppleвЂ™s other laptops-the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pros with Retina displays- are bereft of optical drives.ДЄppleвЂ™s $79 USB SuperDrive might be a necessary add-on with your next Mac. But the new iMac, in order to obtain its svelte edges, abandons the optical drive, and the Mac mini hasnвЂ™t had one since the compact model was released in July 2011. the other model with a bulit-in optical drive is the regular, non-Retina-display MacBook Pro.

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The Mac Pro is unique, as you can actually put a second optical drive in it, but Apple has vowed to release a new pro desktop in 2013 and who knows what itвЂ™s design will be. One is the Mac Pro, which hasnвЂ™t been updated for ages, and which is designed for professional users. If you look at AppleвЂ™s current lineup of Macs, only two models contain built-in optical drives.

#Usb optical drive for mac mini movie

But on Tuesday, Apple dealt a big blow to the music and movie industries. While Apple has been phasing out CD/DVD drives since the introduction of the MacBook Air in January 2008, the shift has been slow and gradual. Such an external drive could read CDs and DVDs, play Blu-Rays, and even burn discs - if thatвЂ™s what you want.When Apple announced new Macs last week, one thing that was notably absent from the new models presented was an optical drive. To do this, youвЂ™ll need to buy an external disc reader that plugs into your Mac via a USB cable.

An external optical drive will allow you to access discs on your Mac.

Buffer zone for data storage here is 1.5 MB, and this is a rather big index for an external DVD drive. And copying data from a CD disc will take 5 minutes.

This Mac external CD drive reads a disc at the speed of 10.5 Megabytes per second.

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0 Slim Portable External CD DVD Drive Burner Optical Drive CD+/-RW DVD +/-RW Superdrive Disc Duplicator Compatible with Mac/MacBook Pro/Air.

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Product - USB 3.0 DVD-RW Driver Portable External Optical Drive CD DVD RW ROM Player for Laptop Computer.

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Thing is I bought Final Cut Express but I cannot install it without a drive now, can I? Does anybody have a. I went to a shop today (in India) but they told me the external drive for the MacBook Air would not work on a MacBook Pro. Can I connect an external drive to my MacBook. My built-in optical drive on my MacBook Pro does not work.