Last night as I was working on the Mac I had the boring task of copying some disks and transferring some files; well, one of the disks I was using got stuck in the DVD drive of the MacBook Pro and that’s when I realized that this laptop has no emergency release button. Leopard wasn’t booting back up - it was trying to read the disk that was stuck in there. I got the bad feeling that I might not be seeing Leopard for a while as I’d have to get someone to sort this out.

Thankfully I came across this website and tried the things he suggested; the one that worked was when I put a little piece of cardboard in the drive so it didn’t spin and then it just ejected after a short while, but it was something I really shouldn’t have had to do. I know Apple is great for design but it definitely needs an emergency release on the new MacBook Pros it’s making. I believe Apple has started making the new one now and screenshots have already been released.

Anyway I hope that link helps you guys in any way if you ever get a stuck disk.

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