Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

Chapter 11. CDs, DVDs & iTunes

Disks, it appears, just can’t get a break. Show me a disk technology, and I’ll show you a spinning storage medium that the world eventually abandoned, usually led by Apple. Think about it: The iMac was the first brand-name computer to arrive without a floppy disk drive (1998). The MacBook Air and iPad don’t have CD/DVD drives. These days, even Windows PC manufacturers have left the floppy drive for dead. Joining it in the great CompUSA in the sky: Zip disks, Jaz disks, SyQuest disks, SuperDisks, Peerless disks…