Apple selling Mac OS X Lion thumb drive version : Due in August

[daboggeyman]

 Wednesday is definitely being dominated by Apple releases, foremost of which is the much anticipated Mac OS X Lion. The new operating system replaces Snow Leopard and is being available for download from the Mac App Store for $29.99.For those customers who for whatever reasons would like an alternative option to the Mac App Store, Apple says they’ll be putting out a USB drive version of the OS X Lion next month.

Apple Insider is saying that the USB OS X upgrade “later this August” will come at the cost of $69.99, or more than double the amount of downloading through the app store. The thumb drive will be available through Apple’s online store.

                                                                                                         Source : Yahoo News

[Phuncz]

That's the Apple Tax for you, $ 40 for a 4GB USB stick. I got a fast USB3 16GB for less
Anyone can make their own stick though. The restore image is located IN the installer you download from the Mac App Store, it's installESD.dmg located in the "SharedSupport" directory inside the installer. Format a USB stick with "MacOS X Journaled" file formatting and specify using a GUID partition table, let Disk Utility "restore" the image onto it and you have your very own stick.

[daboggeyman]

 The usb stick well soon be placing the CD/DVD for delivering games , My guess they will be the next generation for the way we view movies and buy any other computer software not far down the road. At some point in time it will all be bought via computer down load