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Wait for lion or not
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Uhm lion isn't going to be on disks anyways according to apple
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I would just buy it now. It will still come with a Snow Leopard restore disk for a little bit after Lion is released. I bought my mac in September '09 and it came with a Leopard restore disk while Snow Leopard was released in August '09 (I did get a free Snow Leopard upgrade disk in the box though). So even if you get a Snow Leopard restore disk you can always restore to Snow Leopard and then upgrade with your free copy Lion. Any mac purchased between now and the time Lion is released gets Lion for free when it comes out on the Mac App Store.
They will need some kind of restore disk or USB flash drive; this will be needed if your HDD dies completely and you replace the entire HDD.
If apple truly meant "Lion ONLY available on Mac Appstore" then snow leopard could be the last gen of restore disk/thumb on every new mac . From here on Lion, os backup would be on your hdd/ssd.
Apple really want to remove physical media as distribution medium, and i think it started already. So u want restore dvd? I think current new macs could be the last ever
How if hdd fail and u cant reinstall lion from recovery partition? Well you'd end up bring your mac to apple authorized service anyway if that's the case. So why would apple should bother about restore dvd anymore, right?
Long story short, if hdd is failed, you'd screwed even if u have restore dvd
I could be wrong though. Apple could just their mind and provide lion as retail and restore dvds again
Apple really want to remove physical media as distribution medium, and i think it started already. So u want restore dvd? I think current new macs could be the last ever
How if hdd fail and u cant reinstall lion from recovery partition? Well you'd end up bring your mac to apple authorized service anyway if that's the case. So why would apple should bother about restore dvd anymore, right?
Long story short, if hdd is failed, you'd screwed even if u have restore dvd
I could be wrong though. Apple could just their mind and provide lion as retail and restore dvds again
i would hope apple provides reinstall media with their new computers. I don't think what we heard so far precludes it. I hope we get USB drives like they do with the Air
So why would Apple not provide a process for burning a bootable Lion DVD or a making a bootable thumb drive for recovery?
Or just clone your system partition to an external drive and boot from that?
Of course you could just take your Mac for a ride in the car if that floats your boat
Or just clone your system partition to an external drive and boot from that?
Of course you could just take your Mac for a ride in the car if that floats your boat
I've waited this long to switch to a Mac (PC user for the last 20 years) . . I figure another month or 2 wont hurt. I'll wait til iMacs come with Lion installed to order mine - and finally make the switch to Macs! Looking forward to it.
why?
Buy an iMac today and get Lion free later. Big whup. why wait.
Install it or dont, up to you.
Is there some reason you think you *need* lion?
I figure that I'm gonna learn an entirely new OS coming from a PC. Might as well start my learning process on the "newest" OS
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With all the new crap being added to Lion might as well get familiar with Snow Leopard now, and just learn the small new features later. Just my 2 cents.
This makes sense to me. Then you don't have to unlearn stuff.
If you are into technical books to help the learning process, there will no doubt be a "missing manual" title for Lion, and I'd recommend taking a look.
I'm also switching from PC to Mac.
I don't think upgrading from SL to Lion will really be a major hindrance. You learn as you go. The new features in Lion are unlikely to make OS X harder to use. Just my thoughts, I'm receiving my iMac next week.
I'm sure it will need a reboot to finish off the install. We had a font update in April that needed a restart so I can't see how a full OS update can be done without restarting.
Thats what I thought but at WWDC they said no restarts will take place during the entire process.
Cool . . I'll keep an eye out. I've been learning a little by little mainly on the web - and by asking questions on this forum (lots and lots of knowledgeable folks here). I'm really looking forward to making the switch soon.
Apple has good tutorials, both video and text, granted they are not yet Lion-based, but since most of them cover basic principles, few of them will change with Lion. Also look in Apple's video podcasts on iTunes. They tend to be brief, to the point, and well narrated.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/
I've been waiting a long time to switch from PC to Mac too, but I'm not bothered about waiting for it to ship with Lion. As soon as I heard that Lion would be a free upgrade for all Macs bought after June 5th, I ordered an iMac!
Mine's arriving Tuesday!
Mine's arriving Tuesday!