What are the benefits?

You need to find a good internet conection and download the Lion install files and make yourself a USB thumb drive for future installs.

Since you've obviously concluded that there are no benefits, it seems a waste of time to argue with you, especially if one pretty much agrees. For someone in your shoes — i.e., without a reliable, fast internet connection — the lack of a Lion installer disc is a drag. So do what's necessary to get around it. Your computer came with Lion on it, and therefore you obviously have the right to use and reinstall Lion. You just don't have an easy way to get it by yourself. If you know anyone who has purchased Lion from the App Store, simply ask them to download another copy of it (which will be free to them) for you to use in making yourself a Lion USB drive. Lion isn't serialized and has no "activation codes" or other user-proofing mechanisms, and you won't be getting anything you couldn't get yourself if you just had a good internet link. No cost, no crime, no guilt, and no great hassle.

Hi eww

I hear you mate,there are benefits,but I was just pointing out the situation I am in as it is pre installed I thought I might be entitled to a copy via the appstore I will be buying although it's not that much I would have thought that Apple would have had a solution for this type of scenario, as you said "Your computer came with Lion on it, and therefore you obviously have the right to use and reinstall Lion".

Cheers

J

Cheers Mate

I will have to purchase Lion via the app store to get around this problem,just thought they would allow you to have it available on the appstore.

Nevermind hey : )

J

What you need is the Lion install USB thumb drive. @ 69$ it is a Rip Off. But what else can you do.

Why buy, when you could do as I suggested for free? You don't owe Apple another $29 — even Apple doesn't think you do.

I know mate,most of my friends who have Macs are all on Snow Leopard, was going to go by the book but I have now sorted out one, it's just really annoying that Apple didn't take notice to this particular scenario and give an alternative method for those in my position , I mean they are going forward in the technology race and that's great but they need to have a suitable solution to problems like this and to pay £1500 for a brand new machine and not have the ability to repair,re-install your machine in your own home if the problem arises is a bit backward. It's like buying a cordless drill and not having the charger to charge it up,you can use it until the battery runs out and but you have to ask a friend who has the same drill but with a charger so you can re -charge your battery, bit of a tongue twister there 🙂

Anyway Cheers Mate😉

J

"... Purchased a brand spanking new 27inch with Lion pre - installed three weeks ago..."

I didn't know there is a 27" MacBook Pro.

Onaissi wrote:

Is there any benefits to wait to buy a MBP with pre-installed lion?

Edited: Just realized this orginated as a old thread.

Jackcarl,

You have a machine with Lion on it, you can software update it but likely can't download the full Lion if you needed too.

However there is a solution without buying the $69 Lion USB, is to use the free (donations) Carbon Copy Cloner and a blank external powered drive, that you can clone both the Lion Recovery and the Lion OSX Partitions to restore from without a Internet connection. (you wouldnt really need the Lion Recovery Partition at all, you can boot from your clone to repair the drive or reverse clone)

It will copy what changes you have already made (it is a clone), but it's a working copy of the original, you can hold the option key and boot off the clone too, and erase and reverse clone on the present drive or a new one.

You also can update the clone, keep multiple copies around in various time/date states, a month ago, a week ago etc.

http://www.bombich.com/index.html

Just be careful with the backup options, the first clone is fine, but later when it updates the clone it doesn't delete the differences, so your clone will grow. You'll have to set the options to delete whats not on the original, and any files you want to keep you should use a storage drive.

The major thing about 10.7 is software and hardware drivers not ready yet, likely why so many are sticking with 10.6.8.

http://roaringapps.com/apps:table