Reading through other questions I learned that the 2010 Air came with one, but I don't remember noticing any USB drives when I unboxed my 2011 Air (days ago).
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Since the release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7), there is no installer media. The OS is downloaded over the Internet from the Mac App Store, and reinstalled from a recovery partition that is created on the hard drive. Eventually, Apple will allow you to purchase a USB drive that contains the OS. For now, you can make your own (or burn a DVD). It is expected that your computer didn't come with a USB drive for the OS, and the other models no longer come with DVDs. |
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According to Apple.com it does not:
The air uses Internet Recovery to boot from Apple's servers and then recreate the Recovery HD if needed to re-install Lion (which also will download from the internet). You will only need media if you can't get to an internet connection and have the existing Recovery HD go bad. |
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I bought a MacBook Air this afternoon (2011 version) and it did not contain a USB drive for re-installing software. |
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