I think the reason we haven't heard many complaints about the doing away of physical media is exactly this. As long as power users can make their own offline media, there's nothing to complain about.

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[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25537273#p25537273:i88v4p9p said: barefootguru[/url]":i88v4p9p]For Mountain Lion I just ran the installer to put a ...