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MacBook Air SuperDrive super hack makes it work with any computer
the MacBook Air SuperDrive is a nice little slice of hotness, retailing for a mere $99, and doing the whole external drive thing with Apple's sense of style. Unfortunately, it only works with the MacBook Air due to a proprietary IDE to USB bridge. For a mere $9 she was able to find a replacement part, and after pushing some internals around she had her slef a Mac mini and HP Mini-Note-friendly USB disc drive. We've all been laboring under the assumption that Apple needed more than the standard USB power draw, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that she was able to pull this off with a regular part, and we demand Apple start selling $108 SuperDrives-for-all.
Looks like it's going to have a bit of an affect on the Macbook battery if it really needs more then a USB port of power. Most USB drives I have ever had don't need more than 5volts to work, it just sounds like to me that they want it to be a Mac exclusive... Well, it probably has the Mac partition on it anyways.
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MacBook Air SuperDrive super hack makes it work with any computer
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