Phill Shiller said, "only in the App Store."
And don't be so sure about that. Apple wants you to take your computer to them for HD replacements. Everything else, the recovery partition can accomplish.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Will OS X Lion really release as download only?
- Thread starter max¥¥
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Phill Shiller said, "only in the App Store."
And don't be so sure about that. Apple wants you to take your computer to them for HD replacements. Everything else, the recovery partition can accomplish.
Apples many times stated the optical drive in a Macbook are becoming obsolete. I guess those will disappear in the near future too.
Mark my words ... no DVD for Lion anytime.
Thats Apple for you. Unpredictable and only looking ahead to the bright future.
The question I have then is in regard to restore discs on new macs. Will new macs come with snow leopard restore discs then. Surely you will still have the option to do a clean install of a new mac without having to purchase new snow leopard discs, to then install lion on top. Any thoughts?
Oh come on people.
This is NOT difficult.
Have you ever seen an official "Linux Install Disk"? Give me a break.
I am sure that those who really need media [CD / DVD / USB key] to install will be able to create one as needed, on whatever writeable media they provide.
The only open question is whether it will be possible to create just an installer which goes out via internet to get the full OS, or possible to create one which has the full OS. I am betting that there will be ways to do either.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/534.32 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)
The question is how it will be implemented. Don't be a deuce? Sp? Nope.
spidey3 said:
The question is how it will be implemented. Don't be a deuce? Sp? Nope.
The difference is that Linux is being downloaded in an ISO format so you can burn a DVD. 10.7 is being downloaded as an installer. Now there are already steps being posted on various sites in how to make a DVD from the installer. While workable, they are a hack in a sense. Why should we resort going into the contents of the installer and manipulate it so we can burn a DVD instead of just having apple provide some sort of physical media.
I think Ubuntu gives you the option for discs as well. So you can buy the discs, or download the ISO image. Either way Linux is meant to be installed with a DVD where as Lion is meant to downloaded and installed in place.
There have been at least 10 stories on various Mac sites showing how to create a bootable Disc for Lion...Here are a few:
http://www.cultofmac.com/mac-os-x-lion-boot-disk-discovery-saves-the-world-how-to
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/07/how-to-burn-a-lion-boot-disc/
https://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-1166184.html
http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/08/create-burn-bootable-mac-os-x-lion-install-disc/
Works for USB stick too.
Who is saying that will work on the final release? The dubious email from Steve Jobs said it wasn't possible to do a clean install of Lion, and you needed Snow Leopard on your machine before you could install Lion.
Then again, the email could be fake and the solution(s) you posted above could work on the final release. Who knows?
The retail stores don't have disc sections anymore - at least the ones out here. I don't think that is an issue.
Besides, guys, writing is on the wall. It started with the MBA, and now with Lion, Final Cut Pro X, and iWork/iLife being distributed solely in the App Store, I think it's pretty evident that the next step - and I think it will happen THIS year - is the removal of optical drives on the rest of the lineup. We already saw rumors that the next mini won't have one.
Apple will rebrand the MacBook Air SuperDrive as the "Apple SuperDrive", and sell it in stores/as an accessory for those that still want/need one.
I would think removeall of superdrives is gonna happen any time soon, why? too meany people have cd's and dvd's, if you ned a very portable comp and don't need cd's you get the mba
Scroll upwards.
D'oh, my 40+ eyes are having problems focusing on the image.
I'm not worried there won't be a way, I do believe people will find away. Its sad that apple doesn't think people want/need a disc especially when upgrading hard drives.
