mc68k wrote:
Squishy Tia wrote:
Right. As welcome as telling the public "fuck you, DVDs aren't coming, suckers.
well i'm torn...physical media for an OS should be a must. i know lenovo and sony sometimes pull the crap where you
have to pay extra for physical media when purchasing a machine.
apple isn't alone in this respect. optical media is starting to look
like a floppy in my eyes
i was more pissed before i got that bootable 10.7 torrent. the people who are going to be the most pissed about 10.7/app store are people who
have the means to find themselves a solution. i mean this is 2011,
apple in the past has made some good forward-thinking transitions, however hastily.
USB, floppy
drives, etc. people who REALLY need the convenience of bootable media, but lack the torrent searching or DIY skills required to get
it for free can spend an extra $40.
reinstalling OS X and programs isn't really that hard compared to the same Windows procedure. i think people are making a mountain out of a molehill here.
i'm not at all agreeing with the move, but i think in this day and age
it's not an egregious decision. installing from optical media would take much longer than the USB2 solution anyways
Reinstalling time isn't much of an issue. Longevity of the media used to store the OS installer is.
USB drives can be erased. DVD-R/+Rs can bitrot (as you may
have experienced in the past). Real DVDs don't rot for
years and years unless the seal between layers is faulty. DVDs don't require a free
USB port, which can be scarce
on some computers (
like I dunno, mine). And $69 for a
USB drive that probably would cost me $15 at Fry's, tops = hardly a value.
As for the meticulous methods for initial install should one not want to be stuck with a recovery partition: Uh would you
like to know how much free space I
have left
on my spare 40 GB SSD right now
right after the install? Would you?
ONE. POINT. THREE. GIGABYTES.
That's
it.
Now granted I had 15 GB of games
on that drive already, that left 25 GB. So my OS install is 20 GB plus recovery partition.
Bloated as fucking hell.
Unfortunately I'm not gonna be
on Lion for long, at least not for a while.
USB Overdrive is broken in
Lion and I kind of need
it. For my mouse and controller (can't play WoW without both and neither work in
Lion yet).
Utilities are gonna take a while....that's cool. But for the fucking love of god
I WANT MY BLUE SCROLLBARS BACK.. These greyish ones from iOS are
really fucking pissing me off as they're hard as hell to see against a white background.