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[Mastablades]

Was looking around today on the apple site until I found this:

http://store.apple.c...s/product/MD256

Really apple? Charging $70 (USD) just for a flash drive with lion installation on it. That's just pure bs , when anyone could buy it on the mac app store for $30 and then burn it on a cd. This is just ridiculous.

Your thought's?

[cluthz]

Mastablades said:

Was looking around today on the apple site until I found this:

http://store.apple.c...s/product/MD256

Really apple? Charging $70 (USD) just for a flash drive with lion installation on it. That's just pure bs , when anyone could buy it on the mac app store for $30 and then burn it on a cd. This is just ridiculous.

Your thought's?

I guess that is the lazy man's way :)
Also some might not have a DVD player, so they'll end up with 30+20 for the USB drive.

[Mastablades]

True , especially when they took out the odd on the mac mini . but still you could still put the .dmg installer on a usb then when you need it , just copy it back on your desktop and run the installer. The great thing is about Lion is that you don't have to reboot to install.

[doh123]

This is mainly for people who do not want to use the Mac App Store, or do not have the internet connection bandwidth to download it there.  Its a nice option to have for some people... but there is a reason its an added extra option later and wasn't available right away.

[Mastablades]

doh123 said:

This is mainly for people who do not want to use the Mac App Store, or do not have the internet connection bandwidth to download it there.  Its a nice option to have for some people... but there is a reason its an added extra option later and wasn't available right away.

but $70 dollars is a lot of money , especially when they know that in america , a lot of people are unemployed and don't have that kind of money to be spending on something that simple. Sometimes I hate apple .

[cluthz]

Mastablades said:

doh123 said:

This is mainly for people who do not want to use the Mac App Store, or do not have the internet connection bandwidth to download it there.  Its a nice option to have for some people... but there is a reason its an added extra option later and wasn't available right away.

but $70 dollars is a lot of money , especially when they know that in america , a lot of people are unemployed and don't have that kind of money to be spending on something that simple. Sometimes I hate apple .

Windows Ultimate costs $299.
You can get Lion for $29, getting a ready made USB stick for $70 ain't too bad either.

Also I didn't get the part about unemployed people. If you are low on cash, then you have to do some sacrifices.
No one needs to get Lion just now, I know I won't update my desktop to Lion this year.
And if you are really short on cash, and don't have internet to download it, get a friend or your neighbor to do it.

You are paying a $20 premium for the stick (buying Lion on appstore+usb stick will cost you $50 as mentioned earlier)
and to be honest, that ain't too bad. I'm just amazed that Lion costs $29! A new game usually costs $49 and in some cases even $59! Full Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection costs $2599 and AutoCAD LT costs $1199 etc..

[playn]

Lol exactly cluthz. I don't know why people are outraged with $70. Good thing they don't use Windows I guess, they would die when they see the pricing for Windows 8.

[session101]

hey some of us had our DVD drive fail when we bought our 2nd hand mac, so USB is awesome, plus you get a free storage device on top of it, plus its recyclable... go green!

[bcnlvr]

i just wish i had burned lion on to a disk before i installed/deleted installer :/

[playn]

bcnlvr said:

i just wish i had burned lion on to a disk before i installed/deleted installer :/

You can still do it. If you hold option and click on Purchases in the Mac App Store it'll give you the option to re-download Lion

[omfone]

You can burn a bootable copy of Lion easily. Just look for the disk image inside the Package Conents. Use disc utility to burn the disk image.