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"Borrow" CD / DVD disc drives from other Macs?
Like the old Macbook airs can you use the disk drive from a MBP or an iMac wirelessly? Or is that feature gone in Lion?
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According to Apple, you can:
With the Mac App Store, getting the apps you want on your Mac has never been easier. No more boxes, no more discs, no more time-consuming installation. Click once to download and install any app on your Mac. But if an app you need isn’t available from the Mac App Store, you can use DVD or CD Sharing. This convenient feature of OS X lets you wirelessly “borrow” the optical drive of a nearby Mac or PC. So you can install applications from a DVD or CD and have full access to an optical drive without having to carry one around.
That was copied from the Mac Mini specs page: www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
With the Mac App Store, getting the apps you want on your Mac has never been easier. No more boxes, no more discs, no more time-consuming installation. Click once to download and install any app on your Mac. But if an app you need isn’t available from the Mac App Store, you can use DVD or CD Sharing. This convenient feature of OS X lets you wirelessly “borrow” the optical drive of a nearby Mac or PC. So you can install applications from a DVD or CD and have full access to an optical drive without having to carry one around.
That was copied from the Mac Mini specs page: www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
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Definitely still doable, check out the kb on how to do it here:
support.apple.com/kb/HT1777
Basically turn on "DVD or CD sharing" in the System Preferences under Sharing on the remote machine that has the disc drive and you should be able to view it in Finder under devices on the Mac mini/MBA.
support.apple.com/kb/HT1777
Basically turn on "DVD or CD sharing" in the System Preferences under Sharing on the remote machine that has the disc drive and you should be able to view it in Finder under devices on the Mac mini/MBA.
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Apple says that you can using Remote Disc, and you can share TO your Mac FROM another Mac or a Windows machine. From what I've read, you can't play DVDs over the connection, just because of the DRM, but I'm sure there's a way around that.
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