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Would you use it regularly, and if so, for what? For the offhand driver installs, you can always use Mac disk sharing.

Not regularly, no, just something I want to have available. Here are some things I still use an optical drive for:

    - ripping CDs of rare or out-of-print music.
    - burning CDs/DVDs of photos for friends who don't have a USB drive.
    - reading old CDs I have, like a CD of BeOS.

But I use it infrequently enough that maybe a peripheral is the way to go.

1) A valid reason. 2) Come on, just buy them a usb stick, it will be much cheaper in the long run and way more convenient. 3) Storage is so cheap and CDs so unreliabe that you are better off just ripping them once and never use them again.

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