"Built Into Lion" No Install Discs

[BernDog]

Why wouldn't apple support be able to give the option of downloading a copy of this install partition right on the apple website? Throw it on a flash drive, boot from it, and you're up and running.

I'm not looking forward to ever having to do a full reinstall over a standard internet connection, though. See you tomorrow!

[jdc]

Wow.

Youd think the computing world as we know it was Coming to an end after reading these posts...

[haikuman]

Beleaguered ~!~ *(:>*

[modelamac]

That's why see have cloned bootable backups on an external drive.

It will be possible to download Lion to your hard drive. Before you invoke the installation process, you can make a disk image and burn it to DVD. That is your new Lion DVD! Ain't life wonderful?

:censor:

[raz]

haikuman wrote:
[quote=raz]
Replacing the HD in an iMac is no longer a user option. So, when it craps out, you'll be taking it to the Apple Store for replacement and cloud sync anyway.

Once they make the HD in the laptops unserviceable (e.g. solder the SSD to the motherboard), that will leave only the Mac Pros with any user serviceable parts.

This is not a future to which I look forward.

Are you not overlooking external boot drives and running your computer from an external drive...? Asked politely and ignorantly
Certainly possible when the HD in your iMac fails (or fills), though slightly inconvenient to have to have the replacement drive tethered to your iMac. On the other hand it's major league inconvenient when it's a laptop drive that's failed.

[RAMd®d]

Youd think the computing world as we know it was Coming to an end after reading these posts...

Yeah, that was cracking me up!

[decay]

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