No AC adapter is included as it’s not needed. My unit was manufactured on the 21st of March 2014 and the pack comes with the DVD drive, a quick setup guide, USB 2.0 cable and Super Multi Drive Install Disc for Windows with softwares such as CyberLink Power2Go, PowerBackup, YouCam, LabelPrint and 60 days of Norton Internet Security 2013 Version 21.0.0.100. The design is pretty simple and is all black plastic with a thin clear plastic in front of the tray for an eject button. The black LG Electronics External Slim Portable DVDRW 8X with Model No GP50NB40 costs just $23 and with a review of 4 stars I decided to go for it. Thus I decided to go for something cheap from a known brand that would enable me play and copy from the occasional CD/DVD without having to go around begging friends for a few minutes of work time on their DVD enabled PCs. I dropped quite a chunk of cash on my MacBook Pro with Retina Display and despite that I wasn’t willing to drop an extra $75 for the Apple SuperDrive given that I barely used the internal DVD drive that shipped with my Dell Inspiron N411Z.