No CD Drive?  Love it!  But I need to install a CD-based program.

I purchased Office:mac 2008 in 2008.  CD in the yellow box.  I want to install on my new MacBook Air which, of course, has no CD drive.  How do I do it?

You can also purchase the Apple branded external DVD/CD drive that connects through USB. There are also other third party models available. However, I can't comment on the compatibiilty of those drives.

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