HT2801 Why is there no optical drive in the iMAC

I am curious as to what the thought process was with not fitting an optical drive to the new iMAC. I believe this was a financial choice, ensuring that the customer pays the already over priced cost for the main equipment. Then as the equipment really isn't fit for purpose it then forces the customer to pay more at an overly high rate for peripherals that should be included.
This is the equivalent of buying a car and finding that it doesn't have a windscreen. You can still drive the car, but it's not all that usefull really.
The only problem with these forums is that you never get the manufacturers actually participating. They take your money but are not prepared to either capitulate to their error, or defend their standpoint.
I purchased a 13' MAC Book Pro Retina, and am very pleased with it. I own an iPhone and an iPad Mini. So I am not an Apple antichrist! I think that those in the silver tower of power have forgotten who keeps them in that tower and provides them with their end of year bonuses etc, it's us...the customer! We are looking after you Apple, how about looking after us for a change.

I think that you caon only take form over function so far. I think that this direction that both Apple and Microsoft are taking is towards an "everything is in the cloud" position. This is all very well until you find that using Word will cost you x pence or that you have to then pay for access to iMovie and edit your movies in the cloud. It is human nature to be averse to change and if that change is too steep a curve then it is also human nature to push back. I have read a lot of threads that are asking this very same question and the only people that don't seem to be joining in hte discussion is Apple themselves and that is a pity really. It would be nice to hear what they have to say on this subject and to understand the rational behind it.

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HT2801 why cant i play a cd on the imac? it keeps rejecting the cd

will appreciate your help

Another help source (if you haven't already done so).
Go to your OS Help Menu. In the search field type cd
Click on all the troubleshooting topics & Support Articles that pertain to your issue.
You can also do the same in Disk Utility. Open same up.
At the bottom left of the window, click on the purple button w/the "?" in the middle.
This will bring up the Help Menu.
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Try a different brand. Top forum favorites
CDs
FUJI
TDK
Verbatim
Taiyo Yuden
DVDs
Maxell
Taiyo Yuden
Make sure the DVDs are not dirty, smudged and/or scratched.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448 How to Handle and Clean CD and DVD Discs
Cures for an uncooperative CD/DVD drive
Your drive may need cleaning. Cleaning kits can be purchased from any store that sells CD/DVDs.

Why won't my optical drive open unless there is a disc in it?

I bought my eMac (1.25Ghz, USB 2.0, MacOS 10.5.8) from my school last Friday, and have been fixing little glitches, deleting old files, etc. I've finally gotten everything in almost perfect working order except the optical drive. The drive itself seems fine and reads CD's no problem. The only problem is that the drive won't open on it''s own, I have to use the little paperclip hole everytime I want to open it. However, once the disc is in, it will read and eject the disc normally, but once the drive is empty again, I have to use the paperclip to get it open. I don't know if it's a hardware or software malfunction. Help!?
P.S. It also spits out DVD's. I thought it was supposed to be able to read them (it reads CD's just fine), but it just gives DVD's back.

I took off the face plate inside the the tray to make sure there was a spot for a Airport Extreme card (there is, and I'll be getting one =D ), and I noticed an eject button on the disc drive itself (right hand side), upon pressing that, it opened up just fine, so we can assume the drive works fine, however, I also noticed a little green light on the left hand side that is not illuminated. Should it be? Does this help at all? It's strange that the eject button on the drive works, and then it reads the CD I put in it, and will eject it with the button on the keyboard, but once I took the disk out it became inert again. =S
Also, when I put the disk in, I went to the about this Mac, and then to ATA and it showed this:
Without a disk it shows this:
I think I had originally been looking at Serial-ATA which just says:
This system does not contain any Serial-ATA devices. If you have any Serial-ATA devices installed, please check that they are connected and powered on.
I hope this helps.
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What is the best and reasonably priced external cd/dvd optical drive for an Imac 21.5 inches from late 2009?

What is the best and reasonably priced external cd/dvd optical drive for an Imac 21.5 inches from late 2009?

A lot of people have a Mac where the superdrive has been taken out to be replaced with a harddisk. Try to find a friend who has done that, give him a beer and take the superdrive, then buy a superdrive container from OWC or another for afew dollars and put it in there. This slimdrive container has a USB connector. There you go.

Optical Drive on the iSight G5 Model

Please-does anyone know of any site(s) that show how to change the optical drive of the iSight Mac? I'm specifically interested in seeing a picture with connections to the drive. I'm putting together an iSight computer and there is a wire that I think may go to the optical drive which is labeled on the mother board as temp. 2. I want to find out whether this connector goes from the mother board to the optical drive and where else it may go. I'm hoping a site will show the optical drive and all of its connections as seen from the front. There is a French article that shows how to fix an iSight but I cannot find it. I know about Jim Warholic and Bad Caps and others that show how to change the HD and the Japanese sites that actually do not show the iSight version.

tintinlad:
In another post I had asked for this website: http://macboostfr.free.fr/?p=196 that you just posted.
I read through it before and I thought I had saved it but no one knew about it or mentioned it until you just did. Of all of the publications dealing with the iSight, I think this is the best one. The photos are quite good and the limited amount of writing that I have interpreted is also quite good. If there ever were a reference article about the iSight, this is it. Thank you very much.
I have taken it apart and changed only three capacitors on the main board/mother board that I thought seemed defective but unfortunately when I put everything together again, the same screen came up as before. I get a series of horizontal lines through out the whole monitor and the Apple logo comes up with two broken up Apple logos on each side of it and the spinning wheel which eventually freezes.
There are two other boards: one covered with black plastic and the other square and uncovered. They both seem good but who knows. It was an interesting experiment and I learned a lot but it didn't work out yet.
I will next try to transfer data from the HD drive to another drive although I have backed up everything via Time Machine to an external HD and I am now trying to see what I have saved. I hope the latest is on this external HD via Time Machine. Hope I haven't lost too much if anything.

Why is there a question mark in the Finder window?

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Because the item there has been moved from its original location or deleted (there's none in that location by default), or something made the Finder think there was an item there. In either case, the question mark can be removed by control-clicking it and choosing Remove Item, or by command-clicking it and dragging it out of the window.
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Why is there NO way to change the credit card info to pay for ICloud services??

Currently I am being asked for a 3 digit verification number to a credit card that is no longer valid. Why is there no way to change the credit card info on ICloud services?

You change it in iTunes. Go to the iTunes Store. In iTunes 12, click on your name in the toolbar and choose 'Account info'. In previous versions click 'Account' in 'Quick links' on the right. Sign in, and click 'Edit' next to 'Payment information'. Then you can change the card.

Aperture 3 update. Why is there still no eraser for the retouch tool?

Perhaps I'm missing something, but: Why is there still no eraser for the retouch tool?
I realize you can delete retouch strokes, but they are in linear order so you often have to delete useful ones to go far enough back to get the one that you've decided no longer works.
I would rather have the ability to erase strokes back to the original image, much like the way the History Brush works in Photoshop, and indeed the eraser tool works in many other Aperture bricks.
Example, I retouch an eye, and then move on to retouch an ear. Then I decide I don't like the eye brush strokes. In order to remove one stroke on the eye retouch, I have to delete all the successful brush strokes I've made to the ear (i.e. those that came after the stroke I wish to remove from the eye). This is needlessly complicated and inefficient.
Many of other bricks in Aperture have an eraser tool to selectively remove brushstrokes. Why not the retouch tool?
Also, many other bricks in Aperture allow for stacking or layering bricks of the same adjustment with different brush choices. Why not the retouch tool?
Am I missing something?

We are just users here. Feature Enhancement requests need to be made via Apple's official approved channel. You can get there from within Aperture by clicking "Aperture➞Provide Aperture Feedback".
Retouching (and cloning) involves not just applying a transformation to the selected pixels, but basing that transformation on _other, non-contiguous_ pixels sampled from the image. This leads me to think that there may be intractable technical problems setting up the kind of workflow you propose.

Need help viewing photos on iPad , why is there a small timer in the bottom right corner

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Is there a flash drive for the iPhone 5 so I can share

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Hi Allan,
Thank you for responding.
One clarification: I agree that the iPhone is not for long-term photo storage and I'm not looking to use it that way. What I'm looking for is a quick and easy way for me to get the photos/videos of my nephew to my sister so SHE can store them long-term. (Then I can delete all but a few of them and transfer them to my computer for storage pretty quickly and easily). The way I know to get all those photos/videos to her would take a very long time (which I don't have) and would require a lot of time sorting (which I don't have time to do either). Please don't suggest I pare down the photos and videos for her. This baby is a miracle baby and the Mom needs to get all the photos and videos. Understand where I'm coming from?
Regarding not keeping any favorite photos/videos on an iPhone: It seems normal to have some favorite photos and videos remain on an iPhone, kind of like a "Grandma's brag book" of most beloved photos. Even the most no-nonsense person might have 20-30 photos of someone or something they love, so they can share them with interested people or peruse them when they want to feel connected or be grounded.
I can't be the only person dealing with this issue/needing this type of hardware. Opportunities and need for photo sharing abound. If nothing else, it seems like an easy way for Apple to make a whole lot of extra money while making a whole lot of consumers very, very happy.
Any advice? Again, thanks very much.

Why is there a black part in the X when I try to delete my app? It's covering up the supposed to be white space around the X button

Help!! Why is there a black part in the X when I try to delete my app? It's covering up the supposed to be white space around the X button

Try:
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Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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Can I use optical drive on 2011 iMac to download to a 2012 IMac

Hello
I have a 2011 IMac and thinking about purchasing a 2012 iMac. I need an optical drive with the 2nd computer. Can I hook them together and use the internal,optical drive from the 2011 unit to down load to,the new unit.
Thank you.
John

It would mean having to either use one of the iMacs in target disk mode to access the drive from the newer iMac by restarting both computers in target disk mode.
It's easier to just buy an external optical drive for the new iMac.
If you need to share info between both iMacs, you could also purchase an external hard drive to share between both Macs and use OS X file sharing features to share files from the HD between the two iMacs.
Or even setup a Ethernet connection between the two iMac as a network to be able to share data between the two iMacs, also.
Once you have downloaded data from the older iMac's optical drive, you can easily transfer it to your new iMac.
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Why isnt there a none option for the billing options ?

Why isnt there a none option for the billing options ?
It use to be there...
Please solve this problem as i only download free apps...

There should such an option only if you try purchasing a free app within your iTunes on your computer.

Very excited about the new update - Thanks Apple for the keyboard update with new emojis! But why are there no ethnicity options for the families?

Very excited about the new update - Thanks Apple for the keyboard update with new emojis! But why are there no ethnicity options for the families?

D.p.middleton the Adobe Application Manager has been available for quite some time. It not only allows Creative Cloud users to install their applications but also downloads and applies applicable updates. In addition it is also responsible for the licensing and managing your agreement to the terms and conditions of the EULA.
2. this could be due to you selecting a trial subscription to the Creative Cloud? If you go to one of the Adobe Creative products and select Help>Updates it will launch the update portion of the Adobe Application Manager which I believe is the portion you are looking for?
#3 I believe this was already mostly covered in the answer to #2.
#4 the Adobe Application Manager also receives periodic updates which affects both perpetual and Creative Cloud subscription users.
I hope this provides you many of the answers you are looking for? If not please feel free to respond back with any additional inquiries which you have. Also if you are experiencing any difficulties with the update process please post this as well. It may not be necessary to have a full understanding of the inner workings of the Adobe Application Manager to help you resolve your difficulties.

Why are there no sounds located in the Library/Sounds folder in Home Directory? My Mail alerts, etc

Why are there no sounds located in the Library/Sounds folder in my Home Directory? Since upgrading to Mountain Lion most of my sounds are not working, in my Mail alerts, etc.

Did you put any sound files there? Because if you didn't, that will explain why it's empty.
The ~/Library/Sounds folder is where any sound files that you add go, and they are only available to you as the "logged in" user (if you have other users with their own accounts, they each have their own ~/Library/Sounds folder). Apple doesn't put anything there.
The sounds that come with Mac OS X will either be in the /Library/Sounds folder (which is the shared location for all users) or the /System/Library/Sounds folder (don't mess around with anything in the /System folder!).
But I doubt your problem has anything to do with the sound files. Try deleting your sound preferences file, or even just clicking around in the Sound system preferences until they start working again (seriously - I had one Mac that had some audio problems after upgrading, and just turning things off and on a few times eventually worked. It seemed somehow tied to Dictation, so try twiddling those settings too).

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