Hi everyone, In this post, we will be telling you how to use the Apple USB SuperDrive Optical Unit on Windows 11. If you connect this unit to your Windows 11 PC, laptop or tablet, you will be surprised that it doesn’t work. This is because Apple has made this drive react to certain MacBook models. Windows does recognize this device, and will show as Apple SuperDrive USB Device, but that’s about it. It will not do anything: The good…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will be seeing the LG GP63EX70 Optical Drive. This is an external USB DVD drive sold at Walmart in the United States. This drive is capable of reading CD and DVD, including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, DVD+/- R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. It can also write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. The drive is powered by USB and uses a Mini USB connector. Unboxing The drive comes in a…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will be seeing the LG GP60NB50 Optical Drive. This is an external USB DVD drive. This drive is capable of reading CD and DVD, including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, DVD+/- R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. It can also write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. The drive is powered by USB and uses a Mini USB connector. Unboxing The drive comes in a small, almost square box: When opened, we…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will be seeing the LG SP80NB80 Optical Drive. This is an external USB DVD drive sold on stores like Best Buy and Target in the United States. This drive is capable of reading CD and DVD, including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, DVD+/- R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. It can also write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. The drive is powered by USB and uses a Micro USB connector. Unboxing…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will see the LG GS20N Optical Drive in the ICY DOCK Ultra Slim ODD + 3.5″ to 5.25″ Front Bay Bracket Adapter (MB343SPO). Installing the optical drive in this adapter was very simple. We just push the optical drive into the 9.5mm drive slot and use a single screw to secure it into the bay adapter. Since I’m not adding a 3.5″ hard disk drive, I placed the cover into the 3.5-inch slot. The…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the LG GS20N Optical Drive. This is an internal SATA 9.5mm Slot Loading drive. This drive is compatible with 12cm CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R DVD+/-R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. It can burn CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-R DL DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. This is my first slot-loading internal DVD Drive. Here’s a look at the front and back of the drive: On the other side, we can see some drive internals: By taking out…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to enable the Apple USB SuperDrive Optical Drive on Ubuntu. This drive is nothing more than an LG GX50N drive inside an Apple-designed case. It’s very likely the drive is also a special version designed for this case too. One thing for sure is that the drive’s firmware seem to also be modified to only allow it to work with some Apple machines. However, we can trick it to work on…
Hi everyone, Today, we will take a look at the Apple USB SuperDrive. This is a CD and DVD drive sold by Apple. The current model is A1379. This DVD drive can read and write all standard CD and DVD formats. This includes CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW and DVD+/-R DL. This drive compatibility is limited to some models of the Mac. However, it is compatible with Linux after using a special command line. I’ll talk about this on another post….
Hi everyone, Yesterday, I installed a new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) into my main machine. Unfortunately, I had some problems when attempting to encode videos to AV1. However, it is easy to solve when we perform the following steps. It seems that we must use Intel-provided packages in order to enable the full use of the hardware. Barely using ffmpeg with Ubuntu’s default packages will show a couple of errors which are fixed when we install the intel packages. Note…
Hi everyone, Today, I have installed a new Graphics Processing Unit into my main machine. The card I chose is the Sparkle Intel Arc A750 Titan OC Edition. The reason for choosing this card has to do with video encoding, with its Intel Quick Sync component supporting VP9 and AV1 encoding. AV1 encoding is slow on the CPU itself, so having a GPU capable to do that is great. It is also able to encode to H264 and H265/HEVC. It…