Mostly. The MacBook Air SuperDrive can negotiate to get more power from the Air over the USB cable, with the result that it’s generally more reliable at booting. However, you can get around this by using drives that can either be externally powered or have multiple USB input leads (“Netbook” drives) to gain the extra power. This is usually only necessary when the Air is booting from the drive. I’d recommend the MBA SuperDrive just for this reason, but the price difference and the fact that it has such an absurdly short cable mean that you should probably look for pretty much any other first if you don’t need booting. I am a big fan of Lite-On drives, if you can still get them.
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