There will be OS X Lion on CD, or only in the Mac Store?

R C-R, that is assuming that the Lion upgrade

will be an "installer package". At this point it is

only an assumption.

Actually, forcing the download route would be a

good way to prevent unauthorized installations.

woodmeister50 wrote:

R C-R, that is assuming that the Lion upgrade will be an "installer package". At this point it is only an assumption.

So far, everything downloaded from MAS is in the form of an application package, so as assumptions go, I think this is a pretty good one. 😝

Wonderful scheme.

Are you aware that even in countries like France there are areas without any kind of access to Internet?

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 16 juin 2011 13:54:59

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KOENIG Yvan wrote:

I don't understand.

Why burn a dvd when the datas may be stored on a reusable media.

The memory stick is one of them as well as a re-writable dvd or a HD.

Mostly because single layer DVD's are very cheap & can't accidentally be written to once burned. Rewritable DVD's take somewhat longer to burn (& in my experience longer to boot from) so if I wanted to make a couple of copies so I could upgrade several Macs at once, that would be my preferred optical disc choice.

DVD is a wonderful formula for macbook air users 😟

These machine have no DVD unit but they have an USB connector so the preferred media for these machines isn't the DVD.

Do you know that some memory stick devices may me locked to protect against erasing ?

If I remember well, Apple deliver at least one of their products on such media.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 16 juin 2011 14:30:48

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it will only be available via the app store

I wish it could be available to buy as a disc, I have multiple macs and it will definitely slow down my internet connection 😟

You will be able to download it once, but install it on multiple Macs from the same download.

Not sure that Apple will take care of our wishes 😟

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 16 juin 2011 14:48:54

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it will only be available via the app store

You don't know that for a fact. So far Apple has only announced it will be available via the Mac App Store. They have not said it definitely won't be available on a disk as well.

There are thousands of Mac customers for whom a 4GB download simply isn't feasible.

Accessing the mac App Store requires 10.6.7.

What for machines which are running 10.4 or 10.5 ?

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 16 juin 2011 14:57:04

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You're stirring up the pot here, for no reason. Apple has ONLY announced how 6.7 users would be able to upgrade on day one. How about we wait and see what options are available to those w/o high speed access and earlier versions of OSX before we make comments that they won't help you out.

And to believe that Apple does not have an option to accept your money because you don't have high speed network or an older version of OSX is a stretch, in my opinion.

You are on 6.7, so why is this an issue for you?

Well I can see that they see it as easier for people to get the OS, except I don't think they took into account people who have slower internet service.

Apple indicated during their announcements that Lion will be available form the App Store in July, but they never really made any statement that there would never be a physical distribution.

Not making a physical distribution (perhaps at a higher cost) would be a problem for Apple. Many corporate and government customers are going to need physical media, and only about 1/2 of Apple's customers have high-speed internet with bandwidth caps lower than the 4G download.

What this exercise is, however, is a test of using the App Store for mass distribution of huge files. We're talking about 4G per-machine, and perhaps 80% of everyone that can download it will, and most of them within the first few days. A million people in the first day -- that would be 4 exabytes of bandwidth. If their data-centers don't groan, the rest of the Internet surely will.