Make a universal Macbook Air Superdrive
posted Jun 24th 2008 12:50pm by Will O'Brienfiled under: laptops hacks, peripherals hacks
For $99, Apple will happily sell you a slick USB superdrive (aka DVD burner) that only works with the MacBook Air. [tnkgrl] swapped out the USB-IDE interface with a generic $9 unit to make it work with everything else. The generic board required a few mods: relocating the crystal oscillator along with the amputation of its daughter-board that carried an external power connector, usb connector and some caps.
