Lion will go on sale in July for $29.99 via Mac App Store (Updated)

My main query is what about If you are going to do a clean install and load Mac OS? Is there a way to install Lion from a Clean Install or would I require to Install Mac OS Snow Leopard and then upgrade it from Mac Store?

This would also be an issue for people living in developing countries where Internet speed is less. in India Home users at most have 256 kbps Unltd Netspeeds and 4GB downloading on that will be chaotic.

I'm still wondering how companies are going to distribute Lion using the App Store. Can you create enterprise accounts?

So, they said you can buy Lion on the App Store for $29.99 and it will work for all your Macs tied to your iTunes account. I also read that Lion Server will be an add-on, or priced separately for $49.99. I have a mac mini that serves as a file and print server, while my iMacs and MacBooks are its workstations. If Lion Server is not available as an iAP, I guess it would be cost-efficient to just buy Lion Server for all my Macs, instead of buying Lion and Lion Server separately?

And Lion Mail doesn't even come close to Sparrow. I tried them head-to-head. Sparrow won. :)

Oh my gosh. No. There is no claim of "no rebooting." That is absolutely FALSE. Having installed Lion three times in my life already, I can tell you that is false. There is no way to modify the required files while they are in use.

When Phil Schiller said "no rebooting," or whatever, he ended the sentence with "from a DVD." You don't have to boot from a DVD, which is what always took older installations so long. You reboot into the installer which is located on your hard drive already, meaning it is much faster because it doesn't have to read the data from the optical drive, which is incredibly slow compared to the built in hard disk on any computer.

So yes, you WILL have to reboot, just not from a DVD.


Sent from my Lion partition

And again, just because I am in Australia we have to pay more, only $1.99 more but OUR DOLLAR IS STRONGER APPLE!

To anyone worried about data caps, I would ask your local Apple store if you can use their WiFi to download Lion. I'm 99% sure they'd be fine with it, since they're the ones offering the product.

Why is it that there are only negative comments? I dont have to rive to the store for a disc. Woo Hoo!

Although there are 250 features, they don't really interest me too much. Maybe if they were more useful features, then I'd upgrade. I do like the new layout though. I'm sure many others will blow their money on it.

I'll pony up the $29.99 for the upgrade on the App Store, but as soon as some disgruntled hacker discovers a way to create a bootable disc image, I'll be downloading that just so I can have a physical copy.

Also, the 4 GB size and no rebooting makes it sound more like it's an update than an upgrade. I know the features are upgrade-worthy and you have to pay for it, but still. I've never had good success with Apple's so-called "seamless upgrades". Everything gets whacked out and I wind up just doing a clean install... which is apparently no longer an option.