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Yep, the speaker is surprisingly adequate. I watched a, nearly, 4 hour YouTube video this morning using the internal speaker.
 
nlel1975 said:
Agree on points 2 and 3, I don’t use full 4K res but 3008x1692 in HiDPI Retina mode. I also use the minis built in speakers for YouTube, EDM sounds ok on it.
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That's the one I am using, 3008, but i have 2005 vertically.

Oh, I know NVME are meant to be warm but surprising that despite the OWC being a giant heatsink, it is still a nice luke warm feel. It'd thought it would be cold to the touch. Makes a nice little hand warmer at the moment!
 
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Bah, from my research it seems I need the official Apple USB-A to USB-C adaptor for the SuperDrive to work....I tried a couple of other 3rd party adaptors (10gbps and 5W), doesn't work !
 
Raymond Lin said:
Bah, from my research it seems I need the official Apple USB-A to USB-C adaptor for the SuperDrive to work....I tried a couple of other 3rd party adaptors (10gbps and 5W), doesn't work !
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Does it just not work at all or does it work as a read only device? I ask because I’ve got one and both my Mac Studio and MBA only recognise it as read only.

I’ve not plugged it into a USB-A port on the Studio because they’re in use, I’ve always been using USB-C ports with a third party adapter. I didn’t even know there was an official Apple one.
 
Feek said:
Does it just not work at all or does it work as a read only device? I ask because I’ve got one and both my Mac Studio and MBA only recognise it as read only.

I’ve not plugged it into a USB-A port on the Studio because they’re in use, I’ve always been using USB-C ports with a third party adapter. I didn’t even know there was an official Apple one.
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I plugged it in the front with an adaptor, in the back with an adaptor, into the USB-A port in the back of the Caldigit, in the front of the Calidigit. None of them work. By work I mean when I put a CD into the front, it doesn't "suck" it in.
 
Oh interesting. The SuperDrive has been discontinued, I wonder if they’ve removed compatibility for it with the new Mini.
 
Just to see, I plugged my Pioneer BDR-XD05TB 6 x Slim Portable USB 3.0 BD/DVD/CD Burner into one of the front USB-C ports of my mini with a USB-C to USB-A adapter and it was able to read discs and when I put in a blank DVD I had to option to burn...

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Just to see, I plugged my Pioneer BDR-XD05TB 6 x Slim Portable USB 3.0 BD/DVD/CD Burner into one of the front USB-C ports of my mini with a USB-C to USB-A adapter and it was able to read discs and when I put in a blank DVD I had to option to burn...

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The Pioneer BDR-XD05TB has 2 plugs in the end? The Apple SuperDrive only have 1, which is where the problem is. It doesn't get enough power with 1 USB port back in like 2008 so optical drives need power from 2 ports. Apple "solved" it with their SuperDrive. Obviously, now a single USB-C port can deliver like 140w of power so power is no longer an issue. I don't know how it did it, I think it's more a software thing. When you plug a SuperDrive into the Mac, it does a handshake with the OS and then the OS tells that USB port to increase the power outage.

The new Mac no longer does that it seems. I don't think it is a hardware issue, i think it might be a software one but I can't really tell unless I try the official adaptor. Who knows, the official adaptor might do handshake pass through that the 3rd party one does not.
 
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OK, this has changed. When I tried it before, it was showing read only but now it's giving me the ability to write. This is plugged into a USB-C port on the front of my Studio with a generic adapter.

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Feek said:
Plug it straight in using a generic adapter, what do you get?
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Nothing. Not even the prompt like I did with the Kingston USB hub.

I even plug in a battery bank into the USB-C power pass-through on the Kingston hub, can't seem to supply power that way.
 
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