I've bought a MacBook Pro 8,1 one month ago. Snow Leopard was pre-installed on it. Yesterday, I did the free upgrade, provided by Apple. I received a code for the App Store. I filled it in, and I got immediately the OS X Lion upgrade tool (after downloading). But is there a way to put the new OS X, on a DVD as backup?
Please, keep in mind that everything is legal.
Thanks.
Best Answer
Yes - since your mac has bootable Snow Leopard media - you can simply store that Install Mac OS X Lion on a USB drive / hard drive or burn it to a DVD. You could install Snow Leopard on your mac without an internet connection, make an account and copy the installer to the hard drive.
I'm fairly certain that installer does not check for an internet connection or have any sort of time stamp (but I can't rule those out).
To be legal, do consider the license Apple included with your system has wordings for you to use that copy of the software on that one mac and that you can't transfer that license except by transferring the hardware (the license words things to tie the license to the hardware). You can then check with a local lawyer to determine how that license is going to be "legal" where you live.