If you mac comes preinstalled with Lion, how do you download an installer file
So if you purchase a mac and obviously it now comes preinstalled with Lion. How can you download a Lion installer?Yes we do have recovery HD and internet recovery to reinstall lion but this heavily relies on the internet. Since the machine comes preinstalled, the Lion installer wouldn't appear in MAS. Aside from cloning the HD what else is our option?
I've seen this but what this does is to make an exact same replica of the Recovery HD. When you boot to this and go for reinstall OS, it will still download it to the internet. Ultimately its the same method as Recovery HD partition and Internet recovery. They all download the OS and automatically INSTALLS it to the HD. I am looking for a solution that gives us a "download only" option. Basically a Lion installer
e.g if you purchase Lion from MAS, it gives you that download file. That's what I was looking for, this is not possible for preinstalled Lion machines
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-sneak- -sneak- -sneak- LION!
-sneak sneak sneak- Here you go, Sir!
"Uh, what did you do?"
... nothing! Enjoy!
(-giggle-)
... actually it's a free upgrade offered through Apple
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