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1. #MAC USB SUPERDRIVE DRIVERS FOR PC DRIVER#
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3. #MAC USB SUPERDRIVE DRIVERS FOR PC MAC#

#MAC USB SUPERDRIVE DRIVERS FOR PC DRIVER#

On the other hand, you can also find docks that will let you use a SuperDrive, although a software driver has to be installed on your Mac, apparently to handle the power negotiation at a low level of the system.

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The dock does not work with Apple Super Drive.ĬalDigit's TS3 Plus dock is one of many offered by them and by Other World Computing with specific SuperDrive support through an add-on driver.

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Some docks specifically call out their lack of compatibility with a SuperDrive, as one reader noted to their frustration and I mentioned in a recent Mac 911 column about figuring out the amount of power a dock you might consider buying can offer.įor instance, check out the following tech support notes: But note that Apple's USB-C adapters are terribly overpriced compared to those available from other parties. Because I don't have a USB SuperDrive, I can't check whether other USB-C adapters will work.

If you're okay taking up a USB-C port, at least when the drive is in use, Apple lists just three adapters that it sells as doing the trick: the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter ($69), the USB-C VGA Multiport Adapter ($69), and the USB-C to USB Adapter ($19). That's not ideal if you have a Mac model starting in 2015 with only or primarily USB-C: you may not have all the ports you need for your other purposes and rely on a hub or dock to multiply your available Type-A and other ports.

There's something peculiar about the SuperDrive's power demands that Apple's USB ports accommodate.Īpple even notes in a footnote on a support page, If your SuperDrive doesn't respond when connected to an external display or USB hub, connect your SuperDrive to a USB port directly on your Mac. Yet we've heard from readers (and can find ample accounts in online forums) about that not being the case. AC-powered external hubs and monitors with hubs built-in should easily meet this mark. The SuperDrive should only require 0.45 amps at 5 volts (2.25 watts), well within the normal range of a USB Type-A port, which is designed to comfortably offer up to 0.9–1.0A at 5V (4.5–5W), if not more. In other situations, it may be unable to draw enough power to operate. But this is true only when it's plugged directly into a USB Type-A port on a Mac, which not all modern Macs have. The device's sales page claims that There's no separate power adapter, and it works whether your Mac is plugged in or running on battery power. It remains for sale to this day ($79), but Apple never updated the SuperDrive for more modern Macs and interfaces. You could still buy an Apple-branded USB SuperDrive for reading and burning CDs and DVDs. Apple ditched the optical drive from most Macs about a decade ago-far before many pundits thought the company should.