If you’re using an older Mac that still has an optical drive, burning a CD or DVD is simple. Burn a CD or DVD on a Mac with an optical drive If you use an older Mac your job is made slightly easier. It would be best if it was USB 3 but if it’s USB 2 it will still work, just a little slower. You can still buy an Apple USB SuperDrive and there are lot of other USB optical drives out there. It used to work hand in hand with iMovie and allowed you to burn projects to DVD on the internal optical drive.īoth have now gone so we need to make our own arrangements.
Apple also killed off iDVD which was the built-in DVD burning utility. These are still available and relatively cheap.
Newer Macs don’t have optical drives any more so if you want to burn a CD or DVD on a Mac, you will need an external drive.