No optical/disc drive

How are people loading programs with no disc drive? Buying an external?
I actually didn't know they deleted this when I bought my new mini mac.
Jokes on me for not reading specs....
Rick.

Rick Kuntz1 wrote:
How are people loading programs with no disc drive?
They are going to the App Store > Apple - Support - Mac App Store
Rick Kuntz1 wrote:
Buying an external?
Yes, most all Mac OS X supported DVD Drives work just fine.
I have an > LG GE24LU20: 24x External Super-Multi DVD Rewriter | LG USA and it's faster and more reliable then the SuperDrives in either of my Mac's.
Also check out
SuperDrive DVD, DVD Dual-Layer, CD-R/RW, Blu-Ray Optical Drive Solutions FireWire, USB2, eSATA
LaCie - LightScribe DVD±RW, Duplicators and Blu-ray - USB 2.0 & FireWire
or the
Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive - Apple Store (U.S.)

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