External Drive for Macbook Pro or I-Mac

Will the MacBook® Air External DL DVD±RW/CD-RW SuperDrive work on my macbook pro or I Mac as an external drive??

Take a look at this link.
:http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/product/MC684ZM/A?pqid=QC7K7TF9Y472DF CXAJ44KP7KK
You will note the contradictory answers.  I would check with the Apple store.
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