“Readers have alerted us that their Lion Recovery Sticks have started arriving,” Seth Weintraub reports for 9to5Mac. “Interesting upgrade from the Snow Leopard Stix that come with the MacBook Airs.”
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AppleBitch reports, “The sticks, available for $69, offer an alternative for those who do not wish to purchase Lion using the Mac App Store download method. Users who also have problems recovering their system using Lion’s built in recovery tools can also get one of these sticks and may even be eligible to receive one free of charge rather than paying full price.”
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“The Lion recovery tool software relates to a feature offered by Apple that you can use if you already own Lion and a USB stick and want to create your own recovery drive,” AppleBitch reports. “This is a lot better than paying the $69 full price that Apple wants for the official version.”
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Apple releases OS X Lion Recovery Disk Assistant; creates Lion Recovery on external drive – August 9, 2011
Apple debuts Lion Recovery; lets users repair disks or reinstall Mac OS X Lion without physical disc – July 20, 2011
Mac users can reinstall OS X Lion over the Internet from Apple’s servers – July 19, 2011
