I absolutely adore this USB External DVD and CD drive! The drive works seamlessly with my macbook air. During startup of the drive, you simply insert a CD/DVD and wait for your macbook to read the disk. Then, a CD icon should pop up on your desktop. If you're trying to sync CDs with iTunes, that is an even easier process! ITunes should automatically turn on and ask if you'd like to sync the CD. Once you've completed your usage of the disc, you click on the disc icon, go to 'File' in the main menu on the top of the macbook, and scroll down to 'eject disc'.
I considered this purchase a bargain, and I highly recommend the drive! This is obviously a very good item as the many reviews show. My new iMac does not have a dvd drive, so you need an external if you use discs. My fault, but I thought this was a slot drive. I guess I don't know enough to know it would called such if it was a slot dvd drive.
It's made by Archgon, which seems to be a secret in the amazon listings. I discovered they are a somewhat well known company. It worked off of one usb input but has a Y cable in case it needs more power. Using 2 inputs would upset me, but it didn't need it and worked off of only one of the usb cables. Just plugged it in to my computer, cd went right to itunes. DVD up and played with DVD player. A disc must be manually inserted by pushing a button on the unit.
Description: The USB external CD-RW optical drive is specially designed for laptops and desktops without the internal CD drive. With this CD-RW burner, you can listen to music and watch DVD movies.
This DVD player/writer is primarily designed to be portable and is best suited for notebooks and lap tops; however, there is no problem hooking it up to a desk top machine, and it comes with software for both PC's and Mac's, working with a whole array of Windows operating systems from Windows 8.1 on down. This unit does not come with its own power cord, and a powered USB connection is required; it will not operate if plugged into a USB bank that is not powered. Plug it directly into a USB port on your computer or a powered USB bank, and you'll be good to go. I've had my mid-2015 MacBook Pro for about 6 months (and an iMac for about 3 years) which didn't have a CD/DVD read/write drive. I thought about getting the Apple version, but it's kind of expensive for just a few hours a use a month, at best.
I really got this to start looking through my thousands of photos stored on DVDs and CDs, and so far it works perfectly. I opened the box, plugged it into a USB 3.0 port (and no, this drive is USB 2.0, but DVD/CD drives just aren't fast enough to ever need USB 3.0) on my MacBook Pro, and I was good to go.
You don't need drivers or anything (and some of you who think it's necessary for a Mac, really need to understand how a Mac works with peripherals). It was truly plug and play. Great device, high quality, looks nice, and works with.
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I just received this DVD player/burner today and have already transferred several gigabytes of guitar video lessons. So far so good. The unit is generally very quiet, and it was easy to hook up. It is lightweight, slim, and made of the same gun metal grey casing as my Macbook Air.
I got it to replace a more expensive Apple external Superdrive which failed two days ago after much burning and copying of video files. I don't know how this VersionTech unit will hold up over time but I do like that it has a pop out loading drawer (not like my Apple drive).
IF you plug the data cable into the computer and provide a separate power supply for the other USB cable, it works great. Plugging both USB cables into USB slots on the computer overloaded it, so it played a few seconds, stopped to recharge, then played again. Fortunately, I had a charger for a camera that had a USB port. Plugging the charger in to a standard power socket, then the power cable of the Disk Burner into that, fixed everything. It now works perfectly. Quibble: the supplied cables are short.
One-meter cables would add flexibility without increasing the cost significantly.