This is most likely to be down to the firmware on each machine. However if the machine didn’t come with an internal drive like a MacBook air then the USB SuperDrive will work fine. For some reason Apple have put in some restrictions which means that if the machine originally had an internal SuperDrive then it is not possible to install from a USB stick or from a USB SuperDrive. However I found that reinstalling Windows without the internal SuperDrive was a major pain. As I was messing around with hard drives I decided to go for a fresh install of OS X and Windows on the SSD. I then moved my 1TB HDD into the caddy and put a new SSD in the HDD slot. So recently I swapped out the SuperDrive in my early 2011 MacBook pro for an additional HDD caddy.
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