I used the drive on this Mac Mini for the first time since I bought it (two years ago?), just last month to copy 12 Clip Art CDs to a hard drive, with the view that soon there would be no drives in my next computer... On 2013-04-12, at 3:32 PM, Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't really recall last time I used the DVD drive, I use to burn a lot of > disks but since the introduction of inexpensive large capacity USB sticks and > small portable hard drives I don't use them anymore. > > Gerhard > gerhardk@xxxxxxx > > On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:23 AM, George Couckuyt <grandbender@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm still not thrilled Apple ditched the optical drive. I really don't care >> how thin the unit is I just want it to preform.