DVD or CD Sharing . . . AWESOME

I hooked up and am using "DVD or CD Sharing" from within the System Preferences > Sharing area. This is so awesome that it causes one to dream about a different kind of a Mac . . . like an Air, but not. I want a MacBook, NO CD/DVD, Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.++MHz, 3GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive and a bigger battery. Now, there's the ticket for the future.

dechamp wrote:
If you will run the 10.5.2 update you will get this new feature to share a CD or DVD drive. System Preferences->Sharing->DVD or CD Sharing:
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It works on all machines running Leopard, not just the Air.
This will just make your machine into a Remote Disc Server. It will not enable Remote Disc on your machine. Only MacBook Air's can see Remote Disc Servers. So, unless you have a MacBook Air, the "DVD or CD Sharing" feature is useless to you. Hope that clears things up.

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