HT4718 New iMac (March 2013) has no recovery partition ?

Hallo,
i contacted Apple support because of a problem with an external USB 3.0 hdd after sleep mode. In some cases the external hdd will not be recognized
after sleep mode by Mac OS 10.8.5. For checking something the Apple engineer said i should reboot by holding the Alt key.
After reboot the engineer was astonished that my new iMac has no recovery partition. The iMac starts a recovery by internet connection but if i understood him correctly a brand new iMac must contain a recovery partition.
What can be the reason that a newly bought iMac does not have a recovery partition ? I contacted my dealer (German online store) but I did not get an answer until now. My newly bought MacBook Air has a recovery partition.
Please excuse my bad English.
Greetings Jan

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Anyway, drifting here. Is there a way like windows has to have a small partition on my SSD that should I screw something up like I did this morning, I can press some F button, a repair option comes up and Viola its all repaired with out having to plug in a different hard drive.

No, I have owned 2 nice laptops in the past but ended up selling them quickly out of frustration my work at the time required so much PC software that it was annoying trying to figure out what I needed. The 2 laptops just seemed like expensive toys to me. I always thought Sony was quality and have had 4 expensive Sony laptops besides all of the PC towers I built. Well my first Sony laptop is still running from way back in 2001. No battery though. But the last one I purchased 2 years ago. Full of bells and whistles. Intel I7 quad core, same as my mac now. It worked famously , installed a 250 gb SSD the same one now in my Mac. One morning it just wouldn't power up. I could always handle a crashed disk or something but no power. I said the **** with it. No more PCs besides I've had multiple iPhones now and multiple iPads . They have been wonderful. Still require windows sometimes but now I've got Windows 8.1 in BOOTCAMP plus OS X Mavericks. It doesn't get better. I'm using the Mac OS first now every day only going to windows if needed and that is less and less. So short answer. I have only one Mac for now. But I refuse to purchase another PC. Everything Apple is much more money except the Software. I like the FREE OS updates instead of depending 500 bucks every time Windows comes put with a new OS. Lots to get used to since I've been all PC since 1985 and my first dual floppy drive PC followed by my BIG 10 MB hard drive PC. Then someone told me about a 1gb HD. You kids can't imagine that when I was born B&W TV had just come out! So I've seen so much technology growth that young people must feel like it was always like this! Funny! I can't wait to see what the future brings. I really glad I was one of the fer older people to keep up with Tech. Lots o people my age are now sorry they didn't because thn they just assumed this stuff was just novel! Now many need help just turning one on! Very amusing ! Thanks for the help!

HT4718 New iMac (March 2013) has no recovery partition ?

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