Whoever has that older Mac may at some point, need to reinstall the OS. With OS leopard i will be able to upgrade to newer OS without any optical drive so I won't need the optical drive no more after that install !Īnd you're going to ignore the important point I made? Plus it would be needed by whoever uses the older Mac to reinstall the OS 'Book a genius bar appointment, take your DVD to the Apple store, ask them to create a disk image from it and a bootable USB disk from the DVD (you would need 2 USB sticks for this).' On the second link i need to have a working optical drive because Snow Leopard is not installed yet on my old MacBook.įinally, i will try your first solution : For assistance with remote installing Mac OS X v10.6 or earlier, refer to Reinstalling software using Remote Install Mac OS X.' To use the above mentioned discs with a computer without an optical drive, use the MacBook Air SuperDrive or the Apple USB SuperDrive. Install discs for an operating system such as Microsoft Windows (for use with Boot Camp), or Mac OS X.Copy protected discs such as game discs.'Note: These types of discs or activities are not supported by DVD or CD sharing:

In the first link you can see that it is not relevant I can update my MacBookAir from the DVD but i cannot do an image of the DVD. because i do not have OS Snow Leopard installed. I still fill my gas tank without having to buy a new reservoir cap. 'Are you kidding? Do you think any manufactured item should last forever? Well!, I'm going back to my auto dealer right now to demand a new car because the one I paid for 12 years ago, with 180,000 miles on it is worn out! The nerve of them selling me something that will break and wear out!' There is less and less software avalaible on DVD. I use USB disc, USB key and airport for everything else.

Whit OS leopard i will be able to upgrade to newer OS without any optical drive so I won't need the optical drive no more after that install ! Your older Mac is fairly useless with a broken drive.' Plus it would be needed by whoever uses the older Mac to reinstall the OS, or other software only available on disks. 'Plain ol' external DVD drives are cheap.

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