The MacBook Air SuperDrive is, like all Apple gear, a nice piece of work. Pity you can't use it with other Macs.

Ah, but now you can, thanks to 'tnkgrl' who hacked her MacBook Air drive to work with other Macs and PCs. All it took was cool nerves, a soldering iron and a $9 part.

tnkgrl goes into some detail about the technical difficulties but provides full details, photos and even a video of the procedure.

You'll find it all in splendid detail at tnkgrl Mobile