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Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives
FST777 writes "The British Mail on Sunday published its latest DVD giveaway on the EcoDisc, a thin and bendable DVD format that is supposed to be more environmentally-friendly than regular DVDs. Despite the clear warning against using them in Apple slot drives, some Mac users decided to give it a go. The result? A brisk trade for repair shops in the UK. 'The EcoDisc's manufacturer, ODS, insists the disc won't break drives. "We've produced over ten million of these discs — we've had less than a dozen phone calls," says managing director, Ray Wheeler. "There are ways to get the discs out." Wheeler says the problem stems from Apple's slot-loading drives. "It uses an ejection system that doesn't get approval from the DVD Forum." He claims the EcoDisc should work in other types of slot-loading drive, although admits that it hasn't been tested in the PlayStation 3.'"
Just throw the whole computer out and buy a new one!
For reading the Mail on Sunday. Apple users should go for the Guardian's mixture of smugness, cult like atmosphere and complete indifference to reality.
If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
Apple has solved this problem by releasing the MacBook Air without a DVD drive built in- it's much easier to throw away and replace a USB accessory.
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We in the industry call that a "feature".
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Discs don't have ejection systems, so no.
Rob
although admits that it hasn't been tested in the PlayStation 3
Well, yeah, that's understandable seeing as it's still so hard to get a hold of a PS3.
Actually, the Apple slot-loading drive was a response to durability problems experienced by students when they used Mac laptops. Apparently kids were liable to snap the DVD tray right off the laptop. (Not good.) So it wasn't a stupid idea. More like an attempt to balance out a variety of needs.
That being said, you could always get a MacBook Air. Nothing says "high technology" like a complete lack of an optical drive.
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"It uses an ejection system that doesn't get approval from the DVD Forum."
Well, who are they to tell Apple and Sir Steve what to do?
Clear the warning was...if yoda you were
"I've heard the opposite- that slot-load drives are bad for schools because kids like to stick things in them."
And I've heard that what they stick in the slots is pieces of the trays they snap off from other machines that have (had?) tray loading drives.
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Haven't you been reading? They don't work in them apples either...
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I think I've accidentally been transported into a parallel universe. Is this not Slashdot?
What, you say it is Slashdot? Then how do you explain this article without someone (incorrectly) referring to "bricking" the Apple CD drive?
It's a retractable cupholder, you insensitive clod!
It's really quite simple.
Amusingly, when I typed 'Hold' in the Subject field, Safari completed the sentence because I posted the same exact thing here a while back the last time this came up.
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You know, I've heard that if you stick a slice of bologna in the DVD drive, it will play a short movie about pigs.
Oh well. It was worth a shot.
You fail to mention that illegal immigrants killed Diana, presumably while stealing our jobs and living off benefits.
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