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Are there third-party slot loading DVD/CD burners for MacBook Pros?
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Does anyone know if there are third-party DVD/CD burner drives that fit in a MacBook Pro? I'm looking to replace my broken Apple one.
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Yes, for pre-unibody models. For the 17" they even support Blu-Ray.
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I have a pre-unibody Mac. Who makes them or where can I find them?
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Sigh... I did that search, and if you clicked on any of them, you woudl see they were not the slim internal profile I need for my MacBook Pro.
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Fastmac has a BluRay drive for $999. Wow.
timmerk, no offense intended, but you didn't say you'd searched. The MBP takes a 9.5mm drive while most "slim" drives are 12mm. So there's some extra searching you'd need to do because of that. Or you could find the model of your existing drive (I don't know if System Profiler will read your bad drive's details, but that's where to start) and search from there. This is basically what mduell did for the search he linked above.
Yes, this sort of search is a major PITA, but since there are actually a number of available drives that will fit, it's more a shopping experience than a search problem. Good luck.
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Aren't they ALL third party drives. Apple doesn't make any components. The drive in my Mac was a Panasonic (Matsushita) The ones linked to by mduell list Apple as the manufacturer but they will all be actually made by various OEM vendors.
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Originally Posted by tears2040 
Which is more then OWC at $148. 
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Which is more than the GSA-S10N I linked to at ~$100.
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Originally Posted by mduell
Yes, but at OWC you're paying for 30 years of Mac experience, if not longer, and an absolutely spotless reputation for service quality. Given the hassle it is to tear the thing apart, it would be nice to have some confidence that I wasn't buying some cheap-a$$ "pull" and throwing it in there.
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