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OS X Lion Recovery removes need for physical media
- sp332 15y agoPlease change the headline. Lion Recovery is awesome, but in August, you'll be able to buy Lion on a USB stick for $69. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/20Mac-OS-X-Lion-Available-Today-From-the-Mac-App-Store.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/20Mac-OS-X-Lion-Avai... edit: thank you
- TwistedWeasel 15y agoDone. Interesting that the USB stick version is so much more, I assume it's really only for those upgrading from pre 10.6, so it's similar to the cost of Snow Leopard + Lion + cost of media
- wlesieutre 15y agoOr those with high bandwidth costs. While $40 might be more expensive than a single download, if you know multiple Mac users in an area with small caps it might make sense to split one of these. I'm curious how (/if) the license ties in to the App store. Hopefully they don't make you tie it to a single account once your computer is running.
- mikedouglas 15y agoMore likely it's a signal that the USB option is not the preferred upgrade mechanism. Apple wants to push every possible user to the App Store, and it's only extenuating circumstances that are forcing them to offer the USB stick at all.
- seanalltogether 15y ago"Internet Recovery. Help is everywhere. If your Mac problem is a little less common — your hard drive has failed or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, for example — Internet Recovery takes over automatically. It downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac mini and MacBook Air." Anyone wanna guess how that mechanism works? Micro kernel on some internal flash memory?
- TwistedWeasel 15y agoIt must be something small like that, nothing stored on the HD. I wonder if it pulls down enough to create a recovery partition and then boots into that?
- lobo_tuerto 15y ago"...or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, for example — Internet Recovery takes over automatically" Could a dual boot system (Lion + Ubuntu) be confused with "hard drive without OS X" and be taken over by the Lion Recovery automatically? Hope this doesn't means that only OS X should be installed in a Mac.
- matthewlyle 15y agoI doubt it, since Boot Camp is a native OS X feature.
- natesm 15y agoBoot Camp only allows for one other OS. Back when I tri-booted, I had to do it all manually (and use refit). Boot Camp had no idea what was going on.
- ceejayoz 15y agoI'd imagine they're targeting more the situation of "I bought a new, blank hard drive".
- russell_h 15y agoNot sure how this one works, but Macs have had a thing called NetBoot[1] for quite a while which does almost exactly what Apple is describing now. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBoot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBoot
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- j_s 15y agoAn interesting, slightly related project for PC's: http://www.netboot.me/ http://www.netboot.me/
- napierzaza 15y agoThis is cool. Mac OS X is really moving away from dependence on having an optical drive or any other external. I have and SSD instead of optical and it's a nightmare to disk first aid or re-install os x.
- planb 15y agoYou can (at least since 10.6) just copy the disk image to a USB drive and install from that.
- vacri 15y ago"network connection required" is still an external to me. I guess also that it's going to require a wired network connection - or have they really incorporated a wifi detect-select-and-password system into the internet recovery version? While it's convenient for certain unusual situations, I'd rather have a USB stick than internet recovery, simply for speed reasons.
- nhangen 15y agoThis is slick, my only problem with it is that Lion is a huge download. It's bad enough waiting on fresh OS installs, but waiting on a download and install would knock the wind out of my sails. I'll be buying the USB stick.
- wlesieutre 15y agoYou can also pull the disk image out of the installer and make your own, rather than paying the $40 premium
- karl_nerd 15y agoCould u please go a little more into detail on that?
- ugh 15y agoThere you go: http://eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/ http://eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
- nhangen 15y agoThat's probably what I'll do. Just have to copy the image before you install, or it disappears in the cleanup.
- YooLi 15y agoUSB drives come out next month. Won't your download finish before then? :)
- nhangen 15y agoI don't think the boot version contains the full download. I'm guessing it contains just enough to start the restore.
- xpaulbettsx 15y agoOn a related note, does Lion delete its own installer once you install it? I don't want to have to download Lion on all of my machines separately, seems as if I should be able to buy it once from the App Store then copy it (does the OS have the same license rules as apps, i.e. n copies? I'm not looking to pirate anything, just want to save download time)
- irons 15y agoThe installer only deletes itself if it's still in /Applications. Copy it to a different partition before you run it.
- wlesieutre 15y agoI'm not sure if it removes it after installing, but you can probably just copy it to another drive beforehand if you're concerned. If authentication is handled like other App Store software, you may have to enter your apple ID and password to run it after it's copied, but there shouldn't be a limit on the number of computers.
- wisty 15y agoThey say if you open the installer folder, you can see the disk image. Hint hint.
- chopsueyar 15y agoWifi only?