Bought a New Macbook Air w/Lion can I install Lion on my old Machine

I just bought a new Macbook Air with Lion preinstalled on it.  Is it now possible to download Lion again to my old Mac, or since I didn't purchase it from the Mac Ap store I'm out of luck.  I was able to download the new versions of iPhoto, Rockband and iMovie on the old mac, but no luck so far with Lion.  I guess I'm paying $30, unless somebody has a thought?

That's odd... I upgraded 4 Macs to Lion and have not had any earth shattering work stoppages. A little bug here and there but nothing that caused any mentionable issues.
It is kind of unhelpful spouting off what you have read and not experienced.
You have read about people with issues because this is a forum where people come for help. You are reading about the installs that have had issues not about the million+ that have worked.

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