If optical drives are being pulled from shelves, will lion be a diskless install?

[crackintosh]

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I predict that a disk will not be required to install Os x lion. Why would superdrives get pulled from the shelves for a simple hardware update? I doubt the optical drives would be incompatible. Streaming keynote, hd video distribution, apple is equipped to do this. Not to mention their intentions of being 'green'. Someone prove me wrong.

 

[celticpride678]

MacBook Air External Super Drive's are being pulled. Apple already allows over-the-air installs of Mac OS X with an app that comes with every Mac called "Remote Install Mac OS X."

The MacBook and MacBook Pro still have an optical drive built-in and won't be loosing it anytime soon.

 

[FrancoisC]

It would be fun to have OS X 10.7 come on a read only USB flash drive... I always install OS X/windows from a USB source nowadays, much faster than with optical media.

 

[flopticalcube]

Maybe a new version of the external SuperDrive is coming out.

 

[M87]

I've installed OS X from external storage devices many more times than I have from disks. I wouldn't mind at all if they started releasing OSs on flash drives and even as downloads.