Well, You can do what many do now. Put in your snow leopard dvd and to a restore from a time machine back up. I assume most have a time machine back up?
Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 18, 2011, at 4:52 AM, brandt wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > If as you say, the new OS gets distributed via the app store, what do you do > if your machine crash? And, yes, I've heard "mac doesn't crash ... bla bla > blah" and I don't believe in the fairy tail of computers that doesn't crash. > Discard the thumb drive idea for now, say, I buy a macbook pro, install lion > via the app store and for whatever reason, think up your own, it crashes dead > on me 2 months later. I can't boot in to the OS, and I live in South Africa > (data capping is generally applied) thus, installing Snow Leopard and > downloading Lion again would be expensive in the extreme. > > Warm regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in > to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC by going > to www.TheGlobalVoice.info > > Contact me: > > Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 > MSN: brandt...@live.com > Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com > Twitter @brandtsteenkamp > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:38 AM > Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? > > > Well, > > The way Apple seems to be going I would think it would be available in the > Mac app store. They already have iLife and iWorks up there so, it wouldn't > be much of a stretch. At least in the U.S. and U.K. where broad band isn't > as much of a concern. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > > > On May 17, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > >> So I got a question. Do you all think that the new Mac OS will still be >> shipped in a DVD or will it ship in a thumb drive? Or, like someone said, >> will it be digitally distributed in the App Store? I hope it'll be the 2 >> above the one I just asked because the people that don't have credit cards >> like me couldn't buy it unless we either get an App Store card that'll equal >> how much the new OS costs or wait until they release it with thumb drives. >> >> Shawn >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
