THank you, Britt, I appreciate it. I assume a "brick" means a large box that houses it? It has a really thin profile and no separate elec cord.
I'm a bit flummoxed by the reviews, almost 50/50 pro and really con. I like Apple products, but guess I should think about extended warranty with any device designed to be portable. This one will not be portable. 

Thanks to everyone.
Best, 
Britt
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On Sep 10, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Britt Griswold wrote:

Apple makes a portable CD/DVD burner/reader that retails for $79. Requires no brick, use off the USB port power.  If you want to burn the newer Blu-ray disks for data storage (25GB a disk) there are a number of choices there, apple does not sell one of those.

Britt


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From: Linda Feltner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Sent: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:48:16 -0700
Subject: [SCIART] External CD reader/burner

Hi All: Does anyone have a preference of an external CD reader/burner for MAC?
Which type of cable recommended? Firewire800 is probably my best bet. I don't have a seta port on my iMac.
My built-in CD is stuck, or says it's got a disk in there, Apple says take it in to a store, but I can't do that.

THanks,
Linda


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