Hopefully these new MacBook Airs will come with the same USB thumb drive containing OS X as the October 2010 models, but in this case containing 10.7.0.
Lion has a restore partition so including external media is unnecessary.
Hopefully these new MacBook Airs will come with the same USB thumb drive containing OS X as the October 2010 models, but in this case containing 10.7.0.
I never felt the need to order any Apple Product the second it was announced, but for reasons only know to the dark side of my brain, the moment this new Air hits the Apple Store I will be ordering one.
Lion has a restore partition so including external media is unnecessary.
Lion has a restore partition so including external media is unnecessary.
LOL, you guys can't take a joke? Do you really think I was being serious about telling him to take Steve's position at Apple?
You couldn't pay me to be a moderator on this forum.
Forgive me if I'm being dumb, but I genuinely don't know. What if you're hard drive, with the recovery partition on it fails? How would you recover something unrecoverable? Would the Air be totaly broken and need taking to apple for a new hard drive?
How would you change the hard drive if the recovery partition is on it. Say I wanted to upgrade it to a bigger one, the partition wouldn't be there so how do I reinstall. I wouldn't have access to the MAS as there wouldn't be an OS on my hard drive at this point?
You will need either a USB thumb drive or DVD if you want to erase the internal HDD.
You can't do that from the Recovery partition.
Why would they ? Lion will have a recovery partition and you can always redownload it from the MAS if you need to reinstall.
With the way Apple is doing Lion, I'm thinking July will mean the end of "recovery" media with Macs, including the Air's thumb drive and DVDs with other Macs.
Air and iMac are front and center, followed by the macbook pro and mac mini. And left to languish are the macbook(which may get the axe as the price is the same as an entry level air) and the mac pro.....
If your hard drive gets corrupted, with or without a replacement, then you're going to need something else to boot from.
My guess: a half-gig (or whatever is the lowest capacity still worth manufacturing) bootable USB drive that only boots and accesses the MAS.
Would this mean that MacBook Pros would also begin shipping with Lion on its launch date, like the Airs, or would they need a few days for the supply to "catch up" with installing 10.7?
Good for you. Apple works on their schedule, not yours. They will do whatever they damned well pleases them.
If you want to change that, please contact Apple's board of directors and have them appoint you as Apple CEO.
One way or another though, each Apple Retail Store and APR will have to have copies of boot disks (because they cannot repair macs at all, otherwise). They may not want consumers to have recovery images, but they have to exist. And somehow I don't think they will stay only in there.Again, Apple doesn't care about the scenarios we make up where their way doesn't work. It's plainly obvious from the limited option (singular) with which they plan to offer Lion.
We'll see, but my money is on "Their way or the highway" with no recovery media in sight.
Yep, that seems to be the direction Apple is taking with Mac OS X Lion.
Why would you change hard drive elsewhere than at the Apple store.
Again, this seems to be the direction Apple is taking with Mac OS X Lion.
Not that I agree or am happy about it (frankly, I want nothing to do with the MAS), but that's where they seem to be headed and they don't really give a damn about all the scenarios we can make up where their way doesn't work.
Again, Apple doesn't care about the scenarios we make up where their way doesn't work. It's plainly obvious from the limited option (singular) with which they plan to offer Lion.
We'll see, but my money is on "Their way or the highway" with no recovery media in sight.
I know about all the scenarios where this would be a problem, don't shoot the messenger, we've all discussed these at lengths already.
I don't think they can do that yet.
Their are people who live hundreds of miles from Apple stores. What are they going to do when their HDD fails? Ship the laptop off to Apple for an OS install? This seems crazy to me.
You may be right but it just seems crazy to me.
Myself I'll be making an install thumb drive when Lion goes gold.
Once Lion Gold Master Build is released, they'll start putting them onto the pros/iMac/macbooks/mac minis, but of course after they have fitted all the airs with Lion first.