There was a brief transition period where Apple did offer the option to purchase Mac OS 10.7 Lion on a USB thumbdrive for USD69.00 but that went away quickly and left us with only the Restore Firmware and the App Store. Internet Recovery) that is encoded onto every Mac’s logic board – which unfortunately requires an internet connection for any restore to be performed.įor Mac OS X updates, apple sells/pushes it through the App Store application that is built into every subsequent Mac OS X thereafter. Opting instead to rely on their Restore firmware (a.k.a. Ever since Mac OS 10.7 Lion (2011), Apple has stopped shipping Restore DVDs with their Mac computers.
