A:Answer Yes, Yes, and YES! For your first question, once you plug in your external DVD player, (this laptop doesn't have a DVD drive on the laptop body) the laptop should prompt you what you want to do. If not, 3rd party apps should work just fine. This laptop does run Monterey, but you might have to update it. It will be supported for a long time. For your third question, it has an applet pre-installed called "Rosetta 2." You cannot see the app in your applications folder, or launchpad, but basically, it allows you to run intel-based applications on the new M1 chip.
