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This 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 nigh

This 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 ago
You 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.
- zerohp 15y ago
  Wifi selection and authentication in the bootloader was already part of the old Macbook Air. So I'm sure it works here too.
  - vacri 15y ago
    Is that the bootloader on the disk, or a chip on the board?
    - zerohp 15y ago
      In the firmware, not the disk.