I'm going to buck the trend and say this is super awesome. Have a mid-2009 macbook pro, lets hope I'm next!
Me too It seems to me like they are updating all EFI's for Mac's capable of running Lion...
Yep, Pro customers can (afford the Lion USB stick) themselves
No, Pro customers can create their own Lion USB stick
While this is nice, i'am still waiting for a firmware update to enable booting from USB drives on the mid-2011 Macbook Air.
Works for me? Are you sure you made it bootable? If it will not work, what about rEFIt?
What if I don't want Lion? ... What if My internet connection is slow or Capped?
The day I get My new MacbookPro in a few months I instantly get Snow Leopard on it.
Why wouldn't you? I am also not so fond of a number of features in Lion, but most of them can be turned off or set to mimic the Snow Leopard state. In addition to that there have been a lot of under the hood changes (read the Ars Technica Review if you want to know) targeted at the current and future hardware platforms. Why run a legacy OS which is not tailored to get the most out of your hardware. Especially when you get a new MacBook Pro built on hardware (processors, chipsets, airport cards, video drivers, perhaps ssd caching features, etcetera...) which was not available when Snow Leopard was built? I find that a little shortsighted...
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