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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
dvd drive region free?
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<blockquote data-quote="lil" data-source="post: 149297"><p>Not really; for one Apple actually includes a DVD player as standard with the OS, something Microsoft Windows does not have and has to have a 3rd party MPEG2 codec to work.</p><p></p><p>Also Mac DVD drives are no different from others used in PCs, it's actually down to a couple of things:</p><p></p><p>- being readily able to boot from a removable medium, floppy in some cases witth the approriate firmware.</p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>- the firmware updated being available for the Mac that will run within OS X.</p><p></p><p>The firmware itself is system agnostic so that doesn;t matter so much. As such it's not Apple being shortsighted or unfriendly, more a case of manufacturers thinking the world ends with Windows. Linux and other *nix system users also face the same dialemma.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to try and upgrade the firmware on my 12" combo drive PowerBook and I shall update you on the success of that,</p><p></p><p>Vicky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lil, post: 149297"] Not really; for one Apple actually includes a DVD player as standard with the OS, something Microsoft Windows does not have and has to have a 3rd party MPEG2 codec to work. Also Mac DVD drives are no different from others used in PCs, it's actually down to a couple of things: - being readily able to boot from a removable medium, floppy in some cases witth the approriate firmware. OR - the firmware updated being available for the Mac that will run within OS X. The firmware itself is system agnostic so that doesn;t matter so much. As such it's not Apple being shortsighted or unfriendly, more a case of manufacturers thinking the world ends with Windows. Linux and other *nix system users also face the same dialemma. I'm going to try and upgrade the firmware on my 12" combo drive PowerBook and I shall update you on the success of that, Vicky [/QUOTE]
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