I guess the question is asked in the subject, but I'm getting a MBA in the next few weeks, most likely from macmall. Would anyone know if the new stock will ship with Mountain Lion? Just wondering because of the closeness of the release data of mountain lion.
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When will newest MBA's get Mountain Lion shipped?
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Mountain Lion won't be on new stock until it is released from my experience. If ML were released tomorrow the stores would still have to deplete their supply of Lion pre-loaded machines before the ML loaded machines would be shipping. I don't know how Apple handles it from their own retail stores. I suspect they might do the same thing considering the cost of reimaging every system in the store and having to repackage everything after its done.
I thought if you bought a Mac after the announcement date they would give you the ML upgrade for free. Just a couple hours extra to download and install when it is released.
I thought if you bought a Mac after the announcement date they would give you the ML upgrade for free. Just a couple hours extra to download and install when it is released.
The option I'm getting will give me the free upgrade whenever its released. Just curious if having it natively imaged when shipped would be less of a hassle than getting it when released. But IMO the apple OS updates are painless and brilliant.
Thanks.
Thanks.
FWIW, when I worked at Apple, before the Mac App Store, the Inventory team would open the tops of all of the new Macs just enough to slip in an OS upgrade DVD.
Since the Mac App Store, they don't do anything, as you can download the OS upgrade for free.
