“Users who do not have broadband access at home, work or school can download Lion at Apple retail stores and later this August, Lion will be made available on a USB thumb drive through the Apple Store (www.apple.com) for $69 (US),” the technology mammoth confirmed in June.
There are some questions as to whether Apple’s OS X Lion recovery sticks work on a computer that doesn’t have Snow Leopard installed (OS X 10.6 being a requirement for installing OS X 10.7). While the Mac App Store Lion does require a Snow Leopard installation (since it’s an ‘upgrade’) the USB Lion will not. This hasn’t been confirmed through tests. Rather, it’s simply logical.
In Mac OS X Lion, some applications will automatically save your work every five minutes or whenever you take a break from working on them.
Lion costs $29.99 as an upgrade from Snow Leopard.Pricing the USB key more than double ($69.99 wouldn’t seem the proper way to go, even if the customer does get good quality physical media instead of a lousy disc that’s prone to scratching and breaking.
Finally, the purpose of these Lion USB sticks is to be able to install the OS not only on computers that lack an internet connection, but also on those that lack an optical drive.
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