Apple ditched the optical drive from most Macs about a decade ago—far before many pundits thought the company should. You could still buy an Apple-branded USB SuperDrive for reading and burning CDs ...

The Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive is only officially supported on the MacBook Air or Mac Mini, but what if you have another Mac that you want to use it with? Turns out you can make it work by editing ...

The last Apple USB SuperDrive sitting in the company’s warehouse in the U.S. has left the building. According to the online U.S. (and Canadian and Australian) Apple Store, the Apple USB SuperDrive is ...

Many years ago, when Apple introduced the first MacBook Air, the company also announced an accessory called the Apple USB SuperDrive – which is essentially a CD and DVD player that can be connected to ...

Earlier this year, Apple added the last MacBook Pro with a CD/DVD drive to its obsolete products list, and now it looks like Apple's aging external USB SuperDrive might not be all that far behind.

The 2008 MacBook Air didn't have an optical drive, so Apple sold a separate SuperDrive accessory, which has finally seemingly been discontinued from sale. Visit Apple's website, and you'll see the ...

As has been the case with many previous Apple firmware updates, there is confusion over which systems need the recently released SuperDrive 2.0 firmware update ...

Did you ever wonder what caused the MacBook Air's external SuperDrive to only play nice with the Air itself? Hacker tnkgrl did, and she embarked on some hardware research to find out just what was ...

Apple has released a few software updates for MacBooks and MacBook Pros which, amongst some more mundane fixes, finally solve a very annoying hardware problem. A problem which used to make this sound: ...