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Using your optical drive – Apple eMac User Manual

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Chapter 3

Using Your Computer

Using Your Optical Drive

You can install or use software from CDs using your optical drive. You can play
multimedia content (such as QuickTime movies) from CD discs and music from
audio CDs.

If your eMac has a DVD/CD-RW Combo drive or a SuperDrive, you can burn music CDs,
and save documents and other digital files on CD-R and CD-RW discs. You can also play
DVD movies and use most DVD discs.

If your eMac has a SuperDrive, you can also use your home movies to make video DVDs
that can by played in most home DVD players, or save documents to blank DVD-R
(recordable DVD) discs.

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 eMac from your Apple dealer or
the Apple Store (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

With the computer turned on, press the Media Eject key (

) on the keyboard to open

the drive tray.

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