Actually, from what I'm hearing, many of the new machines require a hard drive with Apple's special firmware on it to work (or some sort of thermal monitoring?).
So replacing the drive yourself it out anyways...
I know this is far fetched, but this is Apple afterall
Is there a remote chance that new hardware coming with Lion (new MBAs, Minis) will have some sort of designated SSD just for Lion? The SSD has Lion and in case of a crash, the mac will boot into that, and have options to repair or do a fresh install? Is that even possible?![]()
Now you can. We don't know if it will be possible with the final release.
Apple has gone crazy with this release?
What happened to user experience and ease of use? C'mon.
Sorry, this email is fake. It says 'Sent from my iPhone', yet it has a typo in the word Leopard, one that is autocorrected on iPhone.
It might not be brilliant, but it works. Just reinstall Snow Leopard and you can download Lion again for free from the Mac App Store with your Apple I.D. Makes sense to me...
I just got a Dell, and it came with an OS recovery disc.
I feel like the world just flipped upside-down. Is Apple serious?
EDIT: What happens if your hard drive fails on a mac that comes preinstalled with Lion? If you replace it, and the new hard drive isn't from Apple, there's no recovery partition, there's no restore partition, and there's no DVD to boot off of...
In order to perform a "clean install" of Lion -- on a new hard drive or when restoring a machine to sell it, for example -- users will need to install Snow Leopard first
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It's pretty sad how many people assume this rumor is true and respond with outrage.
It's very easy to spoof e-mail headers MacRumors. As if Steve Jobs is sitting around responding to these kinds of e-mails. It's laughable.
The current developer version does not require this and it is extremely unlikely the release version will either.
Happy now?
I wonder how many people are really running Leopard though for this to be a problem? I am sure the majority are PPC people, especially for the $29 it cost for SL.
Also, who knows, perhaps Apple will put Leopard and SL on the Mac store if this snowballs out of control. No reason why THEY CANT do that.
Just buy a new maac [sic].
-Steve
The only way they will distribute it is through the AppStore so you need at least Snow Leopard to do that. Once you have a copy you can burn the DMG to a dvd (or usb stick) and boot that directly on any core2duo or better mac
If it fails on a iMac you cant replace the HDD anyway so doesn't matter. Probably all Macs will ship with un-replaceable HHD's
Okay.
That still doesn't answer how we can do a clean install without SL.
It's pretty sad how many people assume this rumor is true and respond with outrage.