no cd drive in new macbook?

Interesting. May I pester you for a name/size of a good flash drive, and must I do anything to it to format before doing the back up? And what sort of price are they sold for?

Absolutely for the outside the US comment. I'm so glad someone mentioned that. Internationally, the playing feild is not level.

Recovery partition did not work and it took forever. Superdrive is not an option and looks like all models will be without CD drive in the near future.

That was not a very helpful comment!

No one is forcing you to buy apple products, please complain somewhere where it is appropriate.

yes M'Lord, sorry M'Lord

How do you remote install? this sounds like my only option. I have an older version of this computer that DOES HAVE a CD slot.

If I may ask, laundry bleach- would that be by bluetooth, iCloud or firewire?

Cool, Thanks!

Posadag wrote:

Because I guarantee you that sales went down.

You have figures to back that up or just a guess?

Thank you. I spoke with MS directly and they said it had to be disks. Anyway, thank you for your help. I'll get a drive that I'll hopefully be able to download the software for.

I'll get you a link to the Mac version (I assume it is the Mac version you need)

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/buy

Please note that (if you intend to use iCloud) Office is not compatible with it.

Thanks. ;-))

You're welcome.

Not only is there no CD drive, but no Mac OS installation disk. What if I have to reload my OS?

Use the info in this Apple article - note that you must be connected to the Internet to do a reinstall.

Best of luck.