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Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
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Re: Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
#22Anyone else surprised by how many hugely popular apps Apple is going to kill with new Lion/iOS? Instapaper built-into Safari now, all kinds of messanger apps killed by iMessage, some of those photo apps going down the drain as well, Reminders app is a huge one as well. All targeting really popular app categories.
Sure, some people care about thing X being done supremely well and will still pay for some apps. But the huge majority will probably be really fine with Apples version.
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#23Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
Restore with your current restore DVD/flash drive first then reinstall to Lion.
I assume new computers will still come with the restore DVD or flash drive in the case of the Air. Sounds like the starting point to me.
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#24Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
Interesting question. If you could get the app-store on your computer, you could just redownload the OS (buy once, install on any number of computers). But how do you get the app store on your fresh hard drive? A time machine restore would work, but what if you had no time machine... I wonder if apple will let you burn a dvd with the os once you purchase it. I am worried they might force you to go to an apple store (…
AFAIK you can't boot from a TimeMachine backup... in order to restore from TimeMachine in the event of an HDD crash, you need OS media. :/
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It tied to your apple account . You can login into app store and install it without having to pay again just like how the current app store works with other apps.
Replacement harddrives tend to be empty.
I know not everybody has an external case, but many of those who replace own HDs do. They can (as I do):
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup / prepare for system upgrade.
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#27Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
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#28Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
Restore with your current restore DVD/flash drive first then reinstall to Lion. I assume new computers will still come with the restore DVD or flash drive in the case of the Air. Sounds like the starting point to me.
In my case that is a Snow Leopard disk (my MBP came with Leopard).
So I have to install Snow Leopard, download and update to 10.6.7(?), and then download Lion?
That's a pretty horrible user experience.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting question. If you could get the app-store on your computer, you could just redownload the OS (buy once, install on any number of computers). But how do you get the app store on your fresh hard drive? A time machine restore would work, but what if you had no time machine... I wonder if apple will let you burn a dvd with the os once you purchase it. I am worried they might force you to go to an apple store (…
AFAIK you can't boot from a TimeMachine backup... in order to restore from TimeMachine in the event of an HDD crash, you need OS media. :/
Oh yeah. You are correct. I forgot because I included a partition on my time machine disk that is an OSX dvd, and so have restored from nothing but my time machine drive.
Hmm.. it wouldn't be too hard for them to include a bootable set of disk utilities with your time machine back up. But did they?
I hate having to wait for answers.
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#30Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
Don’t throw out your Snow Leopard disc I guess…