Hi. I recently purchase a new Macbook Air and I hope to import some of my songs from my CDs into iTunes. However, as the Air doesnt have a CD/DVD drive, how can i share my iMac's drive with the Macbook Air? thanks so much. I heard that some settings in system preferences have to be altered for that to happen.
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How to share CD/DVD drive with Macbook Air?
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1. Put the CD into the drive in your iMac.
2. Go to Finder-Device-Remote on your MBA. You should see the CD/DVD drive on your iMac.
I'm afraid remote disc may not work for you. Just found this for audio CDs.
Note: These types of discs are not supported by DVD or CD sharing:
DVD movies.
Audio CDs.
Copy protected discs such as game discs.
Install discs for an operating system.
To use the above mentioned discs with a computer without an optical drive, use the MacBook Air SuperDrive. For assistance with remote installing Mac OS X v10.6 or earlier, refer to Reinstalling software using Remote Install Mac OS X.
Note: These types of discs are not supported by DVD or CD sharing:
DVD movies.
Audio CDs.
Copy protected discs such as game discs.
Install discs for an operating system.
To use the above mentioned discs with a computer without an optical drive, use the MacBook Air SuperDrive. For assistance with remote installing Mac OS X v10.6 or earlier, refer to Reinstalling software using Remote Install Mac OS X.
can't use the disk sharing for ripping movies or cds. you can get a perfectly good USB CD/DVD burner on newegg or amazon for ~$30