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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Apple has posted a few software and firmware updates, which address issues with airport not able to turn off or on, and drive noise with optical drives. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

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: ...