03-07-2013, 08:23 PM
RAMd®d wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen it under the MSRP.
Using it since v1.0, I've only bought the upgrade *disk* once. Installing it on my Rescue partitions and external HDs has amortized the $100 over many years.
It takes forever minus two days for alsoft to make (and ship!) an upgrade disk for new iron, and Apple has been releasing it faster than they can make new disks. And I guess they have to get some info/ROMs/something from Apple to do so.
An external bootable HD with DW is the way to go. And it's much faster than booting from a disk.
I'd try making an emergency boot USB thumb drive with all the tools on it. Do a clean install of the OS on it, then load it up.