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Amazon Germany lists Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on DVD

by Michael Grothaus Apr 25th 2011 at 5:30PM

A blog called Apple Bitch points to an Amazon Germany listing of Mac OS X 10.7, which says the Lion OS will ship on a DVD format. This hints that the update may actually be available as a more traditional DVD purchase, instead of the all-digital Mac App Store download that the preview was released as. Then again, this could just be a default listing for the software, which is set to become available later this year. The US Amazon listing doesn't mention a DVD format at all, instead promising that the page will sell Lion if and when it becomes available in the store.

Though the Mac App Store is clearly the future for Apple's distribution of its software, if Lion were only a MAS download, Apple would be excluding many Macs that could run it. Why? Lion is set to require an Intel Mac with a Core 2 Duo processor or higher. There are many Macs which match those specs that are still running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Since the Mac App Store requires 10.6.6 or higher, having Lion as MAS download only would eliminate a lot people from upgrading to Lion, even though their machines would be more than capable of running it. So those of you who have never updated to Snow Leopard on your Core 2 Duo Macs need not worry, you'll still be able to upgrade to Lion the old fashioned way. However, you'll want to make sure you do, as I'm willing to bet Lion will be the last OS available on optical media.



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Anthony La

Do you think anyone holding out on Leopard is going to even bother with Lion, though? I suppose having all those new features will help, but there's a lot of holdouts who dislike Snow Leopard for a reason.

April 25 2011 at 9:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stuart

Trust me, Lion is NOT ready for consumer use! There's still a lot of work to be done.

April 25 2011 at 7:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris M

They should release it on a mini flash drive like they do with the new MacBook airs.

April 25 2011 at 6:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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SIP

My nephew bought a Macbook Air and the OS was supplied on a really fancy USB stick -- it's so cute, I must have stared at it for at least ten minutes.

April 25 2011 at 7:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
el3ktro

Well I hope it will be available on a flash drive! I have a MacBook Air and no external drive and no other computer, so a DVD would be useless for me.

April 25 2011 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
smakusdod

Holy wow, an operating system on DVD? What will they think of next???

April 25 2011 at 6:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
City 17

Of course it will be on DVD it would be really stupid if it wasn't. Internet isn't as fast or even available everywhere where. I find it really laughable that you think its surprising that it will be on DVD. It will take a few more years yet till DVD goes away and replaced by bluray disks or something.

April 25 2011 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
feeko

I can see Apple ditching optical media, but I can't see them ditching physical media any time soon for a couple reasons. First, it's not a small download, there are people who have either slow internet access or low monthly usage. And secondly, how do you install the OS if you don't have an OS installed?

I wouldn't be surprised if they went to a USB stick as the only physical media though since it would be compatible with all Macs out of the box.

April 25 2011 at 5:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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KenInCO

Physical media is also needed to repair the startup disc with Disk Utility.

April 25 2011 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gshearman

Another point for Apple still selling the OS in a physical format is the huge download size. I live in rural Australia and get diddly-squat downloads per month. I have trouble keeping up with software updates, let alone the whole shebang.

April 25 2011 at 5:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dorjesyber

Good. Maybe we can get iWork 11 finally. I wonder what the upgrade cost for the OS will be.

April 25 2011 at 5:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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