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Using Your Optical Drive, Inserting a CD or DVD Disc

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Using Your Optical Drive Your iMac G5 has a SuperDrive, which you can use to install software from CDs and DVDs, play music from audio CDs, and play DVD movies. You can also burn your home movies to make video DVDs that can be played in most home DVD players. You can burn music CDs that can play in most CD players, and save documents or other digital files to blank CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD+R Double Layer (DL) discs using the Finder. You can store nearly twice as much data (up to 8.54 GB) on a DVD+R DL disc. Important: The optical drive on your iMac G5 supports standard circular 12 cm discs. Irregularly shaped discs or discs smaller than 12 cm are not supported. Noncircular or small discs may become lodged in the drive. If a disc becomes lodged in the drive, see the troubleshooting information on page 57. Note: If you have older software that comes on floppy disks, contact the software manufacturer to see if the software is available on a CD or for download from the web, or purchase an external USB floppy disk drive for your iMac G5 from an Apple Authorized Reseller, an Apple Store retail location, or the online Apple Store at www.apple.com/store. Inserting a CD or DVD Disc To install or use programs from a CD or DVD disc, follow these steps: 1 Place the disc into the optical drive with the label facing you. 2 When the icon for the disc appears on the desktop, the disc is ready to use. Note: Some DVD discs are two-sided. Chapter 3 Using Your iMac G5 43

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Chapter 3
Using Your iMac G5
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Using Your Optical Drive
Your iMac G5 has a SuperDrive, which you can use to install software from CDs and
DVDs, play music from audio CDs, and play DVD movies. You can also burn your home
movies to make video DVDs that can be played in most home DVD players. You can
burn music CDs that can play in most CD players, and save documents or other digital
files to blank CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD+R Double Layer (DL) discs
using the Finder. You can store nearly twice as much data (up to 8.54 GB) on a DVD+R
DL disc.
Important:
The optical drive on your iMac G5 supports standard circular 12 cm discs.
Irregularly shaped discs or discs smaller than 12 cm are not supported. Noncircular or
small discs may become lodged in the drive. If a disc becomes lodged in the drive, see
the troubleshooting information on page 57.
Note:
If you have older software that comes on floppy disks, contact the software
manufacturer to see if the software is available on a CD or for download from the web,
or purchase an external USB floppy disk drive for your iMac G5 from an Apple
Authorized Reseller, an Apple Store retail location, or the online Apple Store at
www.apple.com/store.
Inserting a CD or DVD Disc
To install or use programs from a CD or DVD disc, follow these steps:
1
Place the disc into the optical drive with the label facing you.
2
When the icon for the disc appears on the desktop, the disc is ready to use.
Note:
Some DVD discs are two-sided.