On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Cat wrote: > On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:09 AM, LAL wrote: > >> I have heard that there are no more discs that come with the computer and that installation of a virgin LION system software requires a visit to the app store. (But if one can't do that, then........????) > > > some time after offering Lion as a download, Apple also offered people to buy a thumb drive with Lion on it...so I'd suggest googling that. > > but I can't imagine a new Mac notebook arriving to you without Lion already installed on it... Correct. New Macs ship with Lion installed. It can be reinstalled via the recovery partition.