Apple Adds Lion Internet Recovery To More Macs Released In 2010

Today Apple released three EFI firmware updates adding Lion Internet Recovery service to the Mid-2010 iMac, Late 2010 MacBook Air and Early 2010 MacBook Pro. The available updates include MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3, iMac EFI Update 1.8 and MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.6.

Apple introduced Internet Recovery feature on new Mac mini models and MacBook Air released last July along with OS X Lion itself. Lion Internet Recovery allows machine’s firmware to connect to the Web and download the full Lion OS for installation.

By default OS X Lion creates a recovery partition on the hard drive, but for users who can not access their recovery partition or who are installing Lion OS on a blank hard drive, Internet Recovery provides another option for Lion installation.