I use the Apple SuperDrive for about 2 years and now sought a favorable playback drive for MacBook Air 13 my son. By design, the top LW fits to MacBook. It is only a few Millimeterchen larger than the original SuperDrive, otherwise all the same! Even the permanently attached USB cable is identical.
I tested the LW on MacBook Air, on a Windows XP-based computer and on a Win7 machine. In all variants the LW was easily recognized by port and was ready to use. The LW includes the so-called slot-in technology and has no drawer, as with other drives. The CD / DVD is inserted and then pulled in automatically. An ejection Blanked (Eject) does not exist. The disk must be ejected system as standard via the context menu eject.
It should be emphasized that the drive can read CDs and DVDs and CDs on fire, but no burns DVDs. Here is above description misleading.
From the system the device is recognized as Matshita drive.
The operating sound is to partly already heard clearly when drive but yet I would overlook at the hammer price gladly. It is important that the LW has read on all systems both media, audio carrier, and also games and movies without any problems. Even the burning data to CD and burn an audio CD worked perfectly.
The processing affects quality and robust and is under the EV as the SuperDrive, a rubber ring attached for the LW is fixed and does not slide.
Conclusion: The drive is making all that, what it should do, perfectly: Read and write CD and DVD discs. In addition, trouble-free installation and a super design. I would like to ignore because of the top price since this is no exaggeration, according to my eyes, or rather ears About the louder operating noise. So I want to give full credit.
