Sure, Whatever would work best for you. Either which way, there are ways to restore your system without a DVD.
Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On May 20, 2011, at 1:43 AM, brandt wrote: > I don't know about most, my choice would be an external bootable disk made > with Carbin copy Cloner or Super Duper. (spelling) > > At least, that follows the sudgestion made by some that the cd/DVD rom is > going the way of the dodo. > > 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: Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:32 PM > Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? > > > 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. > > > -- > 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. 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