What I then pulled out of the package, I was neither surprised nor disappointed also first: it was a portable CD, DVD and Bluray burner in the color white.
He was connected to a Macbook Air recognized immediately and I could immediately a folder with 23 GB of content via the context menu "... on CD / DVD" carry on a Verbatim BD-R blank Bluray.
So far so good, first impression: does
Later it went to the reading of audio CDs in order to import them into iTunes.
The next scene, I want to describe this: laptop on the table, right next to the burner.
In principle, the burners should be operated with one hand. So with the right hand to the unit, the four fingers slightly based on the enclosure surface from the thumb presses the eject button on the front. Charging goes on, CD becomes loose inserted. Now I take a precaution, the second hand to help to secure the CD. Then again the one-hand grip: Four fingers on top of the case is based off, the thumb presses the drawer ...
Plop, the drawer goes on again. Gleichzeitiig I realize that the Kunstsoffgehäuse very slightly downward flexing in the described one-handed operation. OK, try again: Two hands, left and right of the housing secure the device, the thumb presses the drawer.
Plop, the tray will slide back on.
Conclusion: there are in almost every CD ever changing several attempts needed to close the tray. That's annoying. I am reading and only afterwards in the reviews that there are also other goes like this. One reported that the replacement unit came with the same error.
The bending of the plastic housing from bursting open the drawer has nothing to do, as only suspected. However, this property does not leave a good impression. This is simply a design error. Here would Samsung modify the housing shape slightly to provide more static.
That with the drawer, as well as the flexible housing are reason enough to let the torch go back. I now have the LG BP40NS20 (for 107), which is also available here at Amazon. Although the advertises unofficial Mac compatibility, but it works perfectly even on my Mac.
Speaking of Mac compatibility: Samsung advertises, but what does that mean, except that I can use the burner on your Mac. Not much. The included software is only for Windows and if I ever wanted to do a firmware update, I'd have a Windows computer from the corner to dig because there is to my knowledge only a firmware update utility for Windows.
Dear firm Samsung: The Mac logo did you not deserve. And with the quality control you must also practice.
