OS X Lion to be sold on USB drives (via Wired UK)

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"...Far from ditching physical media for its OS X Lion release as we all expected, Apple will, from August, sell copies in stores on USB drives. And there we all were thinking OS X was the first download-only release. Sorry.

But it does make sense. Not everyone's home internet will be up to the 3.5GB Lion download. Of those people, some won't be able to take up Apple's "hey, come and use our store Wi-Fi" solution -- they physically might not be able to take their computer to this virtual "Lion Bar", or they simply might not have enough time to loiter in a shop while their operating system updates.

As well, not all Macs have an optical drive -- the MacBook Air, for example -- so discs could never be the solution for all Macs.

As a result, Apple needed its own backup plan for people left without their own backup plan. That backup plan, it transpires, is £55 USB thumb drive versions of OS X Lion, available at Apple stores from August 2011. It's a solution for the Wi-Fi-less, time-poor, cash-rich Mac user who needs Lion in their life...."

via wired.co.uk

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