Hey, good news! If you’re one of the many people having problems installing Lion on a clean machine, Lion USB media is now shipping!
The slim USB disk costs $69, and is a premium alternative for those who won’t (or can’t) go the Mac App Store route.
Before you buy one, though, know that you may be eligible to receive one for free if you’re having no luck using Lion’s built-in recovery tools. Call Apple Support.
In addition, Apple’s released an official tool that makes creating your own USB disk key for Lion reinstalls just stupidly easy.
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19 responses to “OS X Lion Physical Media USB Keys Now Shipping”
You might want to fix that headline before you start getting flamed.
“Now Shopping” ???
Where are these “shopping” from? I can’t find a mention of them on apple.com.
Was this posted from iOS? Lately my iOS loves substituing i for o.
I wonder if this could be used to install Lion over Leopard?
End of article is very misleading. All the ‘official tool’ mentioned does is create the recovery partition on an external device! User is still stuck re-downloading Lion from the App Store for re-install.
lol the usb keys are shopping? Which store are they shopping from?
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I can’t find it on Apple.com. Am I missing something?
Cool. I would like to do a clean instal on my iMac so iCan sell my iMac and my MacBook Pro for the new 2011 MacBook Pro.