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You can download it free of charge.Īlthough Apple doesn’t mention it, we at TMO suspect that you need to register your new Mac under your Apple ID when you first boot up. You should see the iLife suite appear in the “Accept” section.Authenticate with your Apple ID and password.Double-click the App Store in the Dock or select Apple Menu -> App Store.After you’ve reinstalled Lion, restart the Mac.The details are buried in Apple’s Knowledge Base Article # HT4718. (Hold down CMD-R at boot.)Įither way, a Lion reinstall begs the question: with no DVD in the box and no copy of iLife on the recovery partition, how does iLife (iMovie, Garage Band, iPhoto*) get reinstalled? (Hold down the Option key at boot.)Īlternatively, your problem may be so severe on one of these new Macs (an unlikely event) that you need to boot from Apple’s servers and have it check your hardware. In addition, Lion’s hidden recovery partition allows you to boot, examine the main partition, do modest repairs, reformat if necessary, and reinstall OS X Lion. Nowadays Apple is moving away from clunky, rotating plastic discs. The latest version of iLife was included on that DVD. Previously, all Macs included an optical drive and a DVD that would allow you to boot from it and reinstall the OS X.
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That raises the question of how to recover and install the iLife suite if you have to reformat or replace the internal Flash drive or hard disk. The newest Apple MacBook Air and Mac mini have no optical drive, and there is no physical media included in the box.
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