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    From D.M. Procida@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 13 14:17:43 2024
    Can you recommend an external USB DVD drive that will work satisfactorily with USB-C/an M3 Mac?

    I ask because I know from experience that not all do, and I don't see any way of telling in advance.

    Daniele

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  • From Bernd Froehlich@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 14 06:51:30 2024
    On 14. Oct 2024 at 08:47:43 CEST, "Bernd Froehlich" <befr@eaglesoft.de>
    wrote:

    I´m using Samsungs T3, T5, T7.
    They work fine on my M2 Macbook Air. I guess they would work on M3s too.

    I´m curious: which USB-drives do not work with M3?

    Oops, sorry, forget my previous answer. I missed the "DVD". Too early in
    the morning :-/

    For DVDs I use Apples superdrive.

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  • From Bernd Froehlich@21:1/5 to daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com on Mon Oct 14 06:47:43 2024
    On 13. Oct 2024 at 16:17:43 CEST, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

    Can you recommend an external USB DVD drive that will work satisfactorily with
    USB-C/an M3 Mac?

    I ask because I know from experience that not all do, and I don't see any way of telling in advance.

    I´m using Samsungs T3, T5, T7.
    They work fine on my M2 Macbook Air. I guess they would work on M3s too.

    I´m curious: which USB-drives do not work with M3?

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  • From TimS@21:1/5 to Bernd Froehlich on Mon Oct 14 10:29:23 2024
    On 14 Oct 2024 at 07:47:43 BST, "Bernd Froehlich" <befr@eaglesoft.de> wrote:

    On 13. Oct 2024 at 16:17:43 CEST, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

    Can you recommend an external USB DVD drive that will work satisfactorily with
    USB-C/an M3 Mac?

    I ask because I know from experience that not all do, and I don't see any way
    of telling in advance.

    For those infrequent occasions when I need a DVD drive, I get out my trusty AmazonBasics (£10?) drive. It's USB-A but all you need is an adapter.

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    Tim

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  • From Ian McCall@21:1/5 to Bernd Froehlich on Tue Oct 15 19:29:34 2024
    On 14 Oct 2024, Bernd Froehlich wrote
    (in article <ln3tbiFubalU1@mid.individual.net>):

    For DVDs I use Apples superdrive.

    Be quick - the various websites are saying these are now (recently) discontinued and starting to show out of stock in most Apple Stores. I had no idea they’d hung on so long actually.

    Cheers,
    Ian

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