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Booting From CD/DVD Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1808905" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>And since no new Mac's come with an optical drive (and haven't for about 5-6 years)...this isn't surprising.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Almost everything is digital download...or Cloud-based...and you do everything online.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey...I got a lot of stuff on CD and DVD. But since the macOS has evolved a lot since new Mac's had internal optical drives (2012-ish)...if someone today (2018/2019) is running the latest macOS (10.14 Mojave)...a lot of applications that came on CD/DVD 5-6 years ago (or longer) will no longer be compatible with Mojave. So these older app installs on CD/DVD are no longer useful to someone running the latest macOS Mojave. </p><p></p><p>But...if someone is using an older Mac running an older macOS version that the apps on CD/DVD are still compatible with...then an external optical drive does come in handy.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>For me...if I need to access some of my CD's/DVD's...it's usually for old files, photos, music, videos, etc. Or if I want to play an old game on CD/DVD...and I'm using an older Mac running an older OS that can run the old game.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>One thing you will learn very quickly with Mac's & OS versions...things get wayyy obsolete (non-compatible with the latest OS) much more quickly than they do with the Windows OS. The Windows OS generally has way longer backwards compatability than the macOS.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1808905, member: 56379"] And since no new Mac's come with an optical drive (and haven't for about 5-6 years)...this isn't surprising.:) Almost everything is digital download...or Cloud-based...and you do everything online. Hey...I got a lot of stuff on CD and DVD. But since the macOS has evolved a lot since new Mac's had internal optical drives (2012-ish)...if someone today (2018/2019) is running the latest macOS (10.14 Mojave)...a lot of applications that came on CD/DVD 5-6 years ago (or longer) will no longer be compatible with Mojave. So these older app installs on CD/DVD are no longer useful to someone running the latest macOS Mojave. But...if someone is using an older Mac running an older macOS version that the apps on CD/DVD are still compatible with...then an external optical drive does come in handy.:) For me...if I need to access some of my CD's/DVD's...it's usually for old files, photos, music, videos, etc. Or if I want to play an old game on CD/DVD...and I'm using an older Mac running an older OS that can run the old game.:) One thing you will learn very quickly with Mac's & OS versions...things get wayyy obsolete (non-compatible with the latest OS) much more quickly than they do with the Windows OS. The Windows OS generally has way longer backwards compatability than the macOS. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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