Someone posted somewhere on here that an Apple Engineer told him (at WWDC, persumably) that restore disks in new computers will be no more when Lion is released.
I don't believe it. How do you restore your OS if you hard drive crashes?
Of course not, but I don't think they will offer media. Download + utility to restore to thumb drive.
OK, but download + utility to create an installable DVD or thumbdrive = the same end result. Although, I think Apple will provide it for those special cases, and it will be USB stick (new MacBook Air's already ship with USB sticks for restore).