Can I make my iMac 10.6.8 work with a usb superdrive? The internal disk reader stopped working.
Can I make my iMac OS X(10.6.8) work with a usb superdrive? The internal disk reader stopped working.
There are a couple of Apple Superdrives - one will only work with a couple of semi-resent Mac models without a Superdrive; the other supposedly works with all newer models without a superdrive. One of them will not work with any Mac which has a (non-working) built-in Superdrive.
So, the best way around this is to buy a third party DVD drive/burner.
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