I'm really not trolling or anything but...


... they really have made a balls-up of Lion haven't they?

yep ...

No you don't.
You need to download it once - as long as the machines in your household are connected to the same app store account, there's no problems.


Source

You've buy it once, you can install on as many household machines as you'd like is how I'd read that. Of course, if you don't want to eat up that much bandwidth, make the DVD.



Also have a look here - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3201065

To be expected really with any .0 release - the exact same things happened with pretty much any edition of OS X. That's why if you rely on your Mac for your income you never, ever install the first release of a new system. Let others find these bugs, and by the time .1 or .2 comes out, it should be pretty stable and bug-free.

10.7.1 will follow very shortly which should fix most of these little glitches - in fact, Apple have also seeded 10.7.2 to developers for testing, so expect 10.7.1 and 10.7.2 to be released in August sometime.

I know, I know.

Somehow though, I never cease to be amazed by the easily foreseeable, trivial-to-evaluate things that .0 releases get totally wrong.

There are certainly some very dubious UI decisions that have been made this time.

Here’s Simon’s take on it: http://smithsocksimon.net/2011/07/26/so ... pressions/

There are far too many places now that use fake leather/wood/linen or whatever in place of the normal UI look. It doesn’t even look real - just what you’d expect from a cheaper GCI cartoon.

I think you’ll find that the .1 or .2 release comes about the time that the engineers predicted it would be ready. The .0 release date will be a marketing decision, and in Apple that’s down to Steve I reckon.

i dont have or want an app store or fcuking itunes account and never will
i just want a fcuking hard copy to install on my 5 systems

a full Linux install is getting closer and closer ...

Exactly right.

DL as an option is all well and good but there are loads of scenarios where one needs a disk.

how the hell are you going to fix a major OS problem without a disc
go online to the 'app store'

answers on a post card please ...

You can burn the download file to a DVD, chaps.

Mark

Just buy the USB stick when that's available.

Or extract the boot image and copy that to a USB stick.

FFS. If you can't figure this stuff out without bitching, good luck with Linux.

Jon

Linux has GUI tools to burn a bootable image to a USB drive, or you could just use a LiveCD.

Buy one USB stick when it arrives in August, install on all Macs.
If you don't have a disk available, boot into recovery mode and the necessaries will be downloaded form Apple (that's what I've understood of it anyhow).