Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...

I need to install Adobe CS 5 on my Mac Pro, but for some reason the DVD won't even load on my Mac Pro (other DVD/CD-ROMs do, no problem). However, it does load on my co-worker's iMac - I've just ...

Your MacBook Air (Late 2010) comes with a USB Software Reinstall Drive that contains a copy of Mac OS X and iLife. If you selected to pre-install iWork at the time ...

Wondering how you were gonna install all your software on that forthcoming optical drive-deprived MacBook Air? Enter Remote Disc, which essentially enables users to "borrow" the optical drive of ...

Welcome to the re-launch of Ask Ars, brought to you by CDW! Re-launch, you ask? Why, yes! Ask Ars was one of the first features of the newly born Ars Technica back in 1998. Ask Ars is all about your ...

With the recent launch of Battlefield 3, many people are at risk of busting through their internet caps because of an installation bug on the disc-based PC version. [update - a fix has now been found ...