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frederic1943 Author

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Lion Thumb Drive is now in the Apple Store

The Lion Thumb Drive is now in the Apple Store for $69. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

The System requirements say that you need to be at 10.6.6 but that seems to be a leftover from downloading it from the App Store. When you click on "See all system requirements" it takes you to the pre thumb drive page.

There are questions in the "Questions and Answers" section but no answers yet. http://store.apple.com/us/questions/product/MD256Z/A?mco=MjQ1NDU5NTU

2.16GHz Black MacBook 3gb RAM with Windows XP on a 32gb Boot Camp partition, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Mid 2007 Model 2,1

Posted on Aug 16, 2011 8:06 AM

21 replies

Aug 25, 2011 5:56 AM in response to saiboter

I think that we have now enough evidence that what Apple support says and what Apple really does are two different things. Yesterday I had a talk with Apple sales representative and I got return case opened and return shipping label - I just haven't used the USB Thumb Drive and it is still new. That's why I was asking here if it works or not so that to have a chance to return it - sorry about that guys 🙂

Aug 25, 2011 5:58 AM in response to saiboter

By the way Apple upgraded the Lion (is 10.7.1 now) available on Mac AppStore and I think that it should work now - but I can't test it anyway.

Aug 25, 2011 6:40 AM in response to iMasterus

iMasterus wrote:

By the way Apple upgraded the Lion (is 10.7.1 now) available on Mac AppStore and I think that it should work now - but I can't test it anyway.

I have tested the new dowload. It doesn't work for my 2011 MBA. The created boot disk shows up in boot manager as a boot drive, but yeilds a circle/slash symbol when I choose to boot from it.

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Aug 25, 2011 6:43 AM in response to SP Forsythe

Maybe Hopefully apple will bring us an EFI update for mba11 and mm11.

Aug 25, 2011 11:13 AM in response to SP Forsythe

Have returned the Apple Thumb Drive today. I just rely upon decent functioning of Lion OS X from now on 🙂

I used to have a Microsoft Vista (said to be the worst of all Windows) for 1.5 years and it never crashed on my previous Toshiba laptop and I never had a back up plan. So, considering the fact that Mac OS is much more stable and secure than Windows - I don't see why would I need to reinstall Lion in the future.

Aug 25, 2011 12:49 PM in response to frederic1943

Just bought the Lion thumb drive and it will not install from 10.5.8 onto my MacBook Pro. Anyone know any fixes?

Lion Thumb Drive is now in the Apple Store