Remote Install only uses Bonjour for initial discovery of the installer disc, and appears to rely on Apple's already mature NetBoot technology to do the heavy lifting.

Enter Remote Disc, which essentially enables users to "borrow" the optical drive of another machine on the wireless network and pass along the data sans wires. Notably, ...

Although Apple does not explicitly state that the "Remote Disc" function included with the MacBook Air can be used to boot the computer from an optical disc, a guided tour posted on the company's ...

Apple’s site says that “Remote Disc lets you wirelessly use or ‘borrow’ the optical drive of a Mac or PC in the vicinity.” I assumed this meant over a network but I got hung up on the ...

To tackle software installs, Apple also introduced a software-based feature dubbed Remote Disc which will allow MacBook Air users to perform software installs wirelessly using a nearby Mac's ...

Apple has posted a slew of Knowledge Base documents concerning the MacBook Air. A few of the more useful instructions and salient notes: Document #307379 explains how to copy the contents of the ...

As of version 3.8, versions of Apple Remote Desktop installed from a disc will be registered with your Apple ID and will begin pulling down updates from there rather than the Software Update ...

Like, I suspect, many people here, I would like to be able to access files on my home mac(s) while on the road with an iBook. Ideally, I would like to just ...

Deep Freeze 2.0 -- a disk protection tool that restores a standard system image when you restart the Mac -- now supports Apple Remote Desktop.