new way to install "stuff" to new Mac Book Air

[fjs08]

How do you get software to the MBA (MacBookAir)??
Like Microsoft Office, etc, etc??
Thanks.
Frank

 

[gloss]

How do you get software to the MBA (MacBookAir)??
Like Microsoft Office, etc, etc??
Thanks.
Frank

You can wirelessly share an optical drive from another Mac or PC.

 

[Hellhammer]

Download it. Pretty much all software is available for download, legally (trial).

 

[phyrexia]

You could copy the install disc to a USB stick and install it from there, but you'd still need another computer.

 

[PsyD4Me]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

I gave a SuperDrive from my rev C

 

[frunkis54]

How do you get software to the MBA (MacBookAir)??
Like Microsoft Office, etc, etc??
Thanks.
Frank

you can either download it, use remote disk from another computer or purchase a external usb dvd drive.

 

[Stetrain]

I'm pretty sure that Office at least you can get as a digital download.

 

[Capt Underpants]

You could also purchase an external USB disk drive.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Maybe you can get a bigger one of these:

Otherwise, Apple expects you to either buy their drive or use another pc, again. The Mac App Store will help alleviate this, but for non serialed consumables such as Office for Mac (has traditionally been), the user will still have to report to their IT dept/children/pimplyfacedteen in order to get that onto their machines.