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Figure 8-14
GoodReader can transfer files between iOS devices and computers.
Use Remote Disc to access another Mac's optical drive
Since the MacBook Air, Apple has shipped several Macs without a DVD or CD drive. With OS X
now sold only as an Internet download, with more and more media bought through iTunes and other
online stores, and with more and more software sold as online downloads such as through the Mac
App Store, the need for such drives is diminishing. As physical discs become more and more old-
fashioned, you can expect these drives to one day disappear from most computers.
But there are times you need such a drive to install software or access files you may have burned
to disc. In those cases, you have two options:
• The first is to buy an external optical drive, such as Apple's $79 USB SuperDrive.
• The other option is to use Apple's Remote Disc feature in OS X. It costs you nothing, but requires that you have another
Mac that has a CD or DVD drive and is a fairly recent model.
To use Remote Disc, the Mac with the optical drive has to be running at least OS X version
10.4.11.
You can also use Remote Disc to access an optical drive on a Windows computer if it's running
Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 and has Apple's DVD
or CD Sharing Update 1.0 for Windows software installed (available at http://support.apple.com/kb/
DL112).
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