I'm thinking of getting a new 4.2(?) Macbook air and installing Ubuntu 11.10. For the purpose of simplicity I'd like to single boot Ubuntu. I read on the wiki that keeping OS X around is useful for firmware upgrades etc... so my question is: with the new Macbook Air's and their recovery partition, can't I just wipe the drive (except for the recovery partition) and install Ubuntu and then whenever I might need OS X for an upgrade, just recover back to it (I store all my work on dropbox, so a reinstall isn't bad).
I guess what I'm asking is after installing a single-boot efi install of Ubuntu can you still get to the Lion recovery with Command-R. Or could I use the Lion recovery to create a USB drive as well?
Thanks!
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