You need to google their forums if you have issues - make sure your 'finder' preferences are correct and check 'sharing.' This is is a standard optical drive and will show up on any OS X machine if you press the right buttons - it's not the drive's fault if it doesn't. Or, use a powered hub.Īs with any external optical drive, Apple made it more difficult to use optical drives in general. USB 3 provides more power and you can burn with a standard mini USB cable or leave the 2nd USB plug unattached.
It depends on your machine if you need to plug in both, usually on USB 2.0 laptops. It has a double USB plug - one for data and power, the other power-only. I prefer a free utility called ImgBurn which takes a lot of the guesswork out of burning discs. Nero came with it - the glory days of Nero came and went.
It looks cheap and ugly, not like the photograph. This one is unusually heavy and somewhat bulky made of plastic rather than metal.
