I like PC hardware. OK, that's sort of a lie; PC hardware infuriates me no end, because I can never find a motherboard with precisely the set of features I want, but it's the kind of infuriation that comes of having high expectations. My main PC is a desktop system, and Apple simply doesn't have a desktop system offering the kind of longevity and flexibility that I want. PC hardware does, and this is great.
But Apple from time to time does some things which are really neat, and sometimes I find myself looking at those things and yearning for them. Operating system installation and disaster recovery is one of those things. There are all sorts of situations that might prompt you to install the operating system onto a blank machine. Perhaps it's a newly built system with empty disks. Perhaps your disk failed and you need to restore from backup. Perhaps you don't trust the Windows upgrade system and feel more comfortable with a clean install.
The normal way this works is that you have to find some install media from somewhere and pop them in the system. In times gone by, this perhaps wasn't a big deal, because every system had an optical drive, and came with optical install media. But it's the year 2015, and you can no longer count on having a CD or DVD drive in every machine.
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