It is always like that, as long as the CD-Drive works you can use it. Next revision comes with a bonus - NO CC Drive.

( It is still under guarantee - bought August 2010 and we do have 2 year guarantee for every product sold in germany.)Īnyway since I don't need the CD drive that often I am not planning to send it away for 2 months just to get another failing cheap CD-rom. The dealerstell you to return your Mac and wait up to 8 weeks for a replacement and inform you that you might loose all your data that way, too. Wisest decision ever from apple to stop bundling their small laptops and Minis with cd drives in the first place.

I may have burned less than half a dozen CD's with this machine. The same thing happened to all of my 3 Mac's besides the very first iMac dv 400 and this onw, This time it was just faster than usual. After a while it refuses to accept commercial CD's and a couple months later it simple spits out whatever I stick in it. The usual cheap CD-drive stopped working properly right out of the box with stupid rejecting of CD-R's I had burnt on my older Macs and or PC's.

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