Ejecting discs on a Mac
Joen started a great discussion with his post Ejecting Discs The Mac Way.
I agree with him. It would be really useful to have an eject button on the tray. Now the problem is how would it be done on Mac Minis, iMacs and Macbooks. It simply wouldn’t look good.
I’ve had my fair share of issues with the software eject mechanism, I’ve had discs stuck and I’ve been forced to reboot just to eject a disc, so clearly the software system all macs have right now is not perfect. I doubt Apple will do anything about this, but you never know, I mean they did introduce a mouse with a right click button finally.
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Noscope | Ejecting Discs The Mac Way | Open Switch on October 31st, 2006 6:57 pm
You know, I would also like to have an eject button and have had my share of problems, but I have also had my share of problems on many of the PC’s I’ve used.
Even though they have the eject button on the drive doesn’t mean the drive will open when you push it. Often I will push the button and nothing will happen and I will have to restart because the computer won’t let me eject it. I’m not sure if they are unrelated problems, but I thought I’d just throw that out there.
Zach Hale on October 31st, 2006 11:43 pm
Actually, yeah, it happens because the OS can lock the drive. I guess there are no solutions here.
Josue Salazar on November 1st, 2006 12:11 am
Followed your trackback here. Glad someone agrees with me
How would it look on a mac you say? Well, how about creating a tiny circular brushed metal dot right at the extension of the slot-in drive. If you squint it’ll simply look like the slot-in is half a centimeter longer. I think it could work.
Joen on November 1st, 2006 4:08 am