I've had my Macbook a little less than a year and am having trouble with the CD drive. I upload a good amount of music on it (all new CDs, not dirty/dusty etc etc) but nothing really outrageous and have probably burned less than 50 discs in the entire time I've had it. The CD burner stopped working until I slowed the burn rate down to 8x and it still can be "finicky" so to speak - and even uploading CDs onto ITunes takes forever and can even go to a 3x-6x speed and than randomly to 10x on some CDs. Is my CD drive/burner shot or what gives? Help would be much appreciated as I bought the Mac warranty and hope it would be covered! Thanks!

In B4 Buy a Pc or delete system 32 folder.

If it was a PC I'd say reinstall the operating system and/or update the firmware on the CD drive. But since it's a Mac you really can't do anything but contact Apple support/bring it to an Apple rape store.

Or just do a barrel roll (press L or R twice).

my CD burner is a little fickle sometimes. Like if I'm burning say, 5-10 CDs right in a row, the last few will always have some issues and I have to throw the half burned CDR out...

I think you just need to let it cool down or some shit..

when ripping into iTunes, its either slow because you're computer has too much shit on it and its just running slow all around or the disc you're ripping is all scratchy and eff'd up so it has a hard time reading/ripping it...

Your CD burner sounds fucked. I've burned hundreds of CDs on mine and its over a year old. They will cover it under warranty

Not all discs are made with the same quality, either.

if it was a pc id say you could dismantle the cd drive and solder in a new ribbon for the laser... but since its a mac you have to contact aliens to bring you to the surface of the sun where you will meet an immortal dark wizard who will cast universally ancient mantras upon it. that should get you up and running.

oh right and something about homosexuality and opeth

http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macbook

also the mutis dude was right try a different cd brand sometimes u get a bad batch and slower burn speed burns them more thoroughly so then they work

TOUCHE SIR.

Yea, Apple is kind of a terrible company. The internal architecture (Intel CPU) has for years been the same only 1000 dollars more because you get to fit in at starbucks and because of an apple logo on the front. I have to give it to Steve, if you can't make any truly ground breaking products you instead create a trend (the iphone isn't special, Japan has had smart phones for a while)

as long as you didnt shit/piss/puke on your computer, go swimming with it, or drop is down some stairs, they will most likely fix your CD drive for free under warranty. regardless of CD quality, ive never had this issue on mine and its definitely an older model than yours

yeah seriously...the TWO times ive had to bring my mac in for repairs in literally 13 years of NEVER owning a PC the Apple people fixed it no questions asked in a totally reasonable amount of time...

What type of a time frame do you think I'd be looking at if I had to bring it in?

Time frame? That depends on where you bring it in. The boylston street store has the fastest turn around on repairs, something like a CD drive could be done within one to two days tops provided they have the parts are in stock

blaaa... no I won't do it. Though I want to...

it all depends on what kind of stock level the store has for the part, most likely for a cd drive not more than a week but could be a day.

also dont be a douche bag and they may give you a new keyboard ect for nothing.

definitely make a genius bar appointment
http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
you have the warranty use it, it pays for itself.

Please!!!!!!

So lemme run this one by you all...

I've got an iMac G5 power pc running OSX 10.4.11, the model right before the intel processors so I've had it for a while. It's been rock solid for me for years, but recently it's had startup issues, needs to restart constantly, my web browsers are crashing at random. Shit is no good.

I had 2 external hard drives connected. One was a USB drive, and the other was a firewire. Recently I bought a TB firewire drive for school. I had both firewire drives connected and it wouldn't boot. I disconnected both the drives and it booted okay, but still had constant restart issues even with both drives unplugged. I'm only using like 40% of the space on the local hard drive, and I've got a gig and a half of SDRAM. I've run disk repair from the startup disk, and fsck and neither fixed the problem.

Any thoughts before I bring it to the store?

My thoughts are get your problems outta my Mac thread you fuck! Naw, just kidding.

disk warrior might be able to help.