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Can We Use Other Superdrive For Macbook Air Rather Than The Apple Superdrive?

15 Feb

I recently bought a macbook air and need to purchase a superdrive for it. If I buy other USB superdrive will it work for the macbook air.
Thanks in advance.

 
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  1. Don 007

    February 15, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    As long as the 3rd party external CD/DVD drive supplies OS X drivers (either on the install disk or on the manu’s web site) you can use it. A buddy of mine uses a Pioneer CD/DVD/BluRay drive on his MBAir and it works fine (there were some issues with the BluRay at first, though – he fixed it with some software patches).
    You can also wirelessly “share” the CD/DVD drive of another computer – both Mac or PC – as long as the computer hosting the drive has a WiFi card. That works great for installing software and ripping CD/DVD’s the to MBAir, but I don’t like the quality when streaming video from my iMac’s DVD drive to a MBAir – it’s best to rip the DVD first and then send the file to the MBAir. If you go to Apple.Com/Support you can find details on how to set up Optical Drive Sharing on both a PC and a Mac.

     

  2. Chris

    February 15, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    No. The MBAir only works with the approved Superdrive. If you have access to another mac, you can use it’s drive and stream over to the MBAir

     

  3. oban89

    February 16, 2010 at 12:07 am

    yes