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2.2
Your new ad hoc network appears in the list of available wireless networks.
Setting Up a Remote DVD Drive
MacBook Air's unofficial title as the world's lightest notebook computer is the result of a lot of hard, creative
work on the part of Apple and its partners (including Intel, which built a tiny processor just for MacBook Air).
However, that claim to lightweight fame is also the result of quite a few compromises, like not having FireWire
or Ethernet ports.
Perhaps the most controversial omission is MacBook Air's lack of a DVD drive. This seems like a huge prob-
lem at first, but you probably find that, as you use MacBook Air from day to day, the absence of an optical drive
becomes less noticeable. You can always transfer files over a wireless network or via a USB flash drive and,
quite often, you can download applications from the App Store or the Internet.
However, there will be times when what you need is on a disc: a device driver, an application, data, and so on.
One way to work around this problem is to attach an external DVD drive to one of the MacBook Air's USB
ports. A good example is the MacBook Air SuperDrive, shown in Figure 2.3.
