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.

Make a bootable USB flash drive is the easiest (and fastest) way to get the newest version of OS X installed on multiple machines. However, if you still have one sitting around, TidBits found out that ...

With OS X El Capitan available today to the public, some have begun discovering interesting tidbits and changes the new operating system has to offer. Twocanoes (via The Loop) has discovered that Boot ...

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[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29841933#p29841933:kvrcoc6g said: r3loaded[/url]":kvrcoc6g]Wow, so there's an entire GUI app that's been written to ...