Apple has posted details explaining how to use Lion Recovery to create an external recovery disk. The disk, according to Apple ‘has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari.’
The disk used for external Lion Recovery can be either a USB thumb drive or USB hard drive. FireWire drives aren’t supported.
Why the MacBook Air must wait for Lion to be unleashed
by Kenny Hemphill on 17 June 2011 in CommentThe imminent launch of an upgraded MacBook Air, complete with Sandy Bridge chipset and Thunderbolt connector, is about is about as open as secrets get where Apple is concerned. It’s one of those rumours where all the pieces fit so tightly together that you can be fairly confident that the new machines are only a few hours Apple Store downtime away from release.
It seems, though, that we may have to wait just a little longer. AppleInsider reports that Apple will wait until Lion ships before releasing the new Air. That makes perfect sense to me. There’s no way that Apple would release a new machine with a new version of the OS before the OS was available to buy on its own. It just doesn’t work like that. And it would be stupid to launch with Snow Leopard.