Apple starts selling Lion USB sticks

I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, BidsGet.com

Called my local Apple store and they don't have it. I was told it will not be in stores till next month.

The new MacBook Airs do not come with a USB recovery drive.

Apple will sell a USB drive for $69 with an offline Lion installer, not just the recovery. It's spelled out in their own press release:

"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® "

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/20Mac-OS-X-Lion-Available-Today-From-the-Mac-App-Store.html

It's only the recovery disk? That kind of is sad, but that means you still need an internet connection.

Also, am I the only one who doesn't think $69 is too terrible? I mean, it's more than it needs to be but you're paying $40 for the physical product. Which is way too much for a small flash drive, but you're also paying for all the extra cost of that over the MAS. Obviously, Apple isn't expecting people to pay $69 and $29.

It's the recovery version, baby!

It's the recovery version!!!!!