On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:19 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On Aug 2, 2011, at 19:02, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I doubt many software vendors are
>> going to increase their distribution costs by replacing installation
>> media with USB drives.
> 
> USB thumb drives are cooperative with optical media. Sure,the unit cost is 
> higher but packaging and distribution costs are a lot lower, not to mention 
> storage.
> 
> Also, a thumb drive can be written on site with the latest version. 

As of Lion and the latest hardware it will actually net boot from apple servers 
from what I understand.

--Larry

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