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The MacBook Air is a slim, ultra-portable computer developed and manufactured by Apple Inc. Whether 13.3-inch or 11.6-inch of MacBook Air has no physical drive to play CDs, DVDs or Blu-rays on. In such circumstances, playing DVD movies on a MacBook Air somewhat more challenging for the DVD collectors. Short of buying the external DVD player, is there a way I can watch my DVD's that I own on my MacBook Air? I'm going on vacation and want to bring my exercise videos with me, but I'd rather save them on my Macbook. As an added complication, my primary iTunes account is on my desktop, rather than on my laptop. Into the Mac with the media drive, insert a data CD or DVD. On your MacBook Air, within the Remote Disc window, double-click on the name of the Mac that has the media drive. You’ll see an icon.
Compared to many How-To articles, this one is pretty simple, but it saved me from buying another USB DVD drive just for one little task.
The problem: I have both Macs and Windows PCs, and needed to install Microsoft Office from DVD media on an ultrabook laptop that had no internal optical drive.
1 Steps total
Step 1: Download BootCamp from the Apple Support Site
The MacBook Air SuperDrive has unique firmware which prevents it from being properly recognized as a plug and play optical USB drive by Windows. Fortunately, Apple provides the drivers for running Windows on a Mac, as part of its BootCamp software.
If you download the latest release of BootCamp from Apple's support site, you will have a zip file wherein the path bootcampdriversApple contains the file 'AppleODDInstaller64.exe'.
Simply execute this file to install the Apple Optical Disk Driver for 64 bit Windows, and presto! You can then use the MacBook Air SuperDrive with your Windows PC.
15 Comments
- TabascoFelloWizard Aug 14, 2015 at 03:03pmFinally, something I can use. Thanks this is helpful on many levels.
- CayenneJeremyGove Aug 14, 2015 at 05:50pmLong live BootCamp! Great post! Thanks for putting this up.
- CayenneInevitableCheese Aug 14, 2015 at 05:53pmMakes you wonder why in the world they wouldn't just make it available.
- MaceCurtis3363 Aug 14, 2015 at 06:16pmAwesome, I just got this drive for a friend and it won't work on his older Mac, so I'll give him mine and use his.
- SerranoNHCSAdmin Aug 14, 2015 at 06:20pmAwesome! Been to busy to figure out how to use it on another computer! Thanks for the write up!
- Thai PepperBlair Groves Aug 14, 2015 at 06:23pmThank you for your comments everyone! I'm glad this was helpful to you!
- ChipotleColdDeck Aug 14, 2015 at 08:19pmThat's a useful bit of info right there. Thanks for posting!
- Datillhatsynot Aug 14, 2015 at 09:10pmVery nice and I didn't know it wouldn't work. My wife has a Mac with one of these drives and I have an Ultrabook so this will come in handy.
- ChipotleJames1765 Aug 14, 2015 at 10:55pmI should be shocked that Apple would break a long standing standard like this without any apparent advantage, but this is Apple we're talking about.
- Thai PepperBlair Groves Aug 14, 2015 at 11:23pmFor every one item that Apple has put up a dead end, they've both innovated and perfected dozens of things that have influences our world in general. They've succeeded in creating a very nice ecosystem for people who are prepared to pay the price of admission, and there is much more to come, as long as Apple remains attentive.
- CayenneBryan9095 Aug 15, 2015 at 12:05amThis is a much easier method. Connect the SuperDrive and a USB flash drive to a Mac. Copy the contents of the Office DVD to the flash drive. Then plug the flash drive into the ultrabook. Run the setup. The benefit of this method is not having to do anything special to get the SuperDrive to work with the ultrabook and the installation of Office will be faster.
- Thai PepperSteve_Belmont Aug 15, 2015 at 02:58amGood Thinking! great job, and you get to save a few
- Macebbigford Aug 15, 2015 at 04:45amNice write up on repurposing. How is macbook air for coding. I'm guessing nobody would actually buy an Apple optical drive for Windows intentionally. At least it isn't a total loss if you're stuck with it and don't want to pay $30 for a new external.
- DatilAshleyLewisMS Aug 16, 2015 at 02:30pmThanks for the guide. I gotta say, I've used a generic Samsung external DVD drive on an iMAC before and it works a treat.
- DatilRusty Platter Aug 17, 2015 at 10:19amBasic editing software for windows. For the reverse situation, I've used a Dell USB DVD drive without issues on a Mac.
Apple has shied away from supporting Blu-ray playback in OS X, but there is a new media player available that allows for native Blu-ray playback. For MacBook Air users and also Blu-ray fans, we will introduce how to play Blu-ray on 13-inch MacBook Air with MacBook Air Blu-ray Player to enjoy some high-definition Blu-ray entertainment.
Preparations you need to do:
How To Watch Dvd On Macbook Air 13.3
- 13-inch MacBook Air with OS X 10.8 -10.14
- Intel Core i5 or above
- Internal or external Blu-ray drive
Free trial version of Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player Pro is now available on Macgo Download Center. You can also click here to download Mac El Capitan Blu-ray Player Pro, and then drag its icon to your Application folder.
After installing Mac El Capitan Blu-ray Player Pro, you can go to 'Launchpad' and click Mac Blu-ray Player Pro.
a. Play a Blu-ray File
Click 'Play' button and Select a Blu-ray file
If you want to play a Blu-ray file, just click on 'Open File' on the main interface and choose the Blu-ray video you would like to watch from local media files, then click 'Open'.
Wait for a few seconds till the menu appears. Now you can choose where you want to start watch the movie in the full featured Blu-ray menu, you can choose which language you want to hear in 'Audio' and what kind of language you want to see in 'Subtitle', then you can directly press 'Play Movie' and 'Return' key to enjoy some Blu-ray time.
b. Play a Blu-ray Disc
Connect the Blu-ray drive with your Mac via USB cable.
Insert the Blu-ray disc you want to watch in the drive.
Launch the software and it will automatically load and play the disc. 3d interior design software, free download mac.
You may have to wait for a few seconds before the Blu-ray menu appears as there may be some trailers before the menu comes up.
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