Is there a reason why my macbook pro didn't come with a disc?

Is there a reason why my macbook pro didn't come with a disc?

If you just bought it and it came with Lion then you don't get a DVD. Instead what they have done is created a Recovery Partition on the drive that serves the same function.
Allan

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    TJC1961 wrote:
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