If the MacBook Air is the mother of all slimline notebooks, then these two must be her offspring: you may have to ferry them around a lot if you watch DVDs or use wired surfing while you’re on the road. While the Superdrive is a slot-loading 8x number in an aluminium jacket, and weighing just over a pound, the Ethernet adapter looks to be a standard Apple white, and gives you that RJ-45 connector for 10/100BASE-T support that everyone’s talking about. Combined together they take up around 25 cubic inches we think, showing just how skinny the Air itself actually is at 52 cubic inches:
https://gizmodo.com/macbook-airs-fatal-flaw-battery-ram-hd-sealed-like-a-345177
Here’s the beef on the $99 Superdrive:
Slot-loading
Built-in short USB cord
Works with DVD±R DL, DVD±RW, CD-R/RW
Slightly bigger than a CD case at 5.47 x 5.47 x 0.67 inches
1.09 lbs
The $29 Ethernet adaptor specs:
RJ-45 socket for 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
Built-in 4.6 inch USB cord
Bus-powered USB 2.0
Both, unsurprisingly, are shipping in 2-3 weeks from the Apple store.
[Apple and AppleInsider]
