The Future of Mac Boot CD's???

J

Jasoco

Video Gamer/Collector
With my iMac I got startup CD's which include an entire OS (9) installed on it.

With OS X it's not that easy, plus the OS takes up a lot more space.

In the future, Apple will probably get rid of Classic and OS 9 altogether. (Yeah, I know it's probably YEARS in the future) New Mac's will probably be made to not even SUPPORT OS 9. The same way new Macs now won't runOS 8 or System 7.

What will Boot CD's look like in the future? I mean, the way they are now you have an entire OS 9 installed on the disk to allow you to browse around and stuff. Will Apple make CD's with OS X on it like this? Or will they move to Bootable DVD's? In that case they'd eventually have to include a DVD player with every Mac. (Right now you still have just CD/RW's on some models. So they'd have to move to Combo Drives on lower end models.)

Any ideas?
 
In the mean time, CDs should surffice. Remember, OSes can still be shipped on multiple CDs and the only the first of the collection needs to be bootable, the rest of the CDs will only contain software that needs to be extracted or installed. Also, for now, with compression, a single CD should be able to contain the whole OS. Heck, if Microsoft can ship their OSes on single CDs, Apple should be able to do so.

It is possible that Apple would move to DVDs in the future. Sun is already doing this. Some of their workstations and servers only ship with DVD drives, and thier Solaris distribution is available on DVDs.

-B
 
What I mean is, can you literally fit an entire copy of OS X (Stripped down, no doubt) AND the backup .img containing the HD Restoration files? Isn't OS X like a gig or so?
 
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