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Where can I get a remote disc for mba?
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simsaladimbamba
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Apple.
What exact MBA did you buy and where are you located country wise, as the answer to how get it, may differ.
Identify your Mac and Mac OS X version, visualised in a more elaborate image
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Btw, "Remote Disc" is not the correct term, it is "Recovery Disk". Remote Disk is the option/ability to use an optical disk drive (ODD) from a Windows computer or Mac remotely via a local network.
To learn more about Mac OS X:
What exact MBA did you buy and where are you located country wise, as the answer to how get it, may differ.
Identify your Mac and Mac OS X version, visualised in a more elaborate image
Identify your Mac and Mac OS X version using this 25 second video tutorial (3MB, .mp4, H.264)
Btw, "Remote Disc" is not the correct term, it is "Recovery Disk". Remote Disk is the option/ability to use an optical disk drive (ODD) from a Windows computer or Mac remotely via a local network.
To learn more about Mac OS X:
He might mean Apples Remote Disk that allows you to use another Mac or PC's DVDROM drive to install software programs. Which is usually on the left side of Finder.
simsaladimbamba
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I thought so too, but this
makes me think, the OP confuses it with a physical disc, thus my explanation, what Remote Disc and a Recovery Disk is.
I mean the disc that allows you to use other peoples optical drive. What simsaladimbamba said is what I am looking for. I live in NJ, and I have a used 2008 mba
Thank you for the response, but I am looking for the actual disc. I do not have the disc because I bought from a website called powermax where they sell a variety of apple products.
simsaladimbamba
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Sorry, misunderstood you, as you said disc.
You have to contact Apple and ask them for replacement DVDs or you could get the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD for 29 USD and use that. Or you could get the 69 USD Lion USB Recovery drive.
I think you are misunderstanding what "Remote Disc" is. You say you're looking for "the disc that allows you to use other peoples optical drive". There is not a disc that allows you to do this, but instead it is a function built into OS X.
If you follow simsaladimbamba's link from his/her earlier post, you will be able to use remote disc - to use another computer's optical drive. You are not missing a disc that will allow you to use Remote Disc.
If you are looking for a Recovery Disc so that you can re-install/fix OS X, then follow simsaladimbamba's most recent response for tracking down a disc.