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M3 MacBook Pro Ships With macOS Ventura, Can't Yet Be Updated to macOS Sonoma Over the Air
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Oh come on guys.... Allow me to remind you that Apple are a small start up who lack the internal resources to test these things before launch day! "These things" being making sure your latest laptops can run your latest software...
I mean launching a brand new laptop and a brand new operating system with 164,000 employees and a Billion bucks in the budget is tough.
I mean launching a brand new laptop and a brand new operating system with 164,000 employees and a Billion bucks in the budget is tough.
The hits just keep on coming. This is officially a poop show. Well done Apple. Well played. Now queue the Apple apologists to say this is a feature, not a bug.
The agony of update defeat???
It has nothing to do with any specific OS, but rather Apple’s servers aren’t configured correctly and they dont think the new Macs are eligible to run Sonoma.
it is pretty odd considering Sonoma released late September and these machines are shipping in early November that they're still on Ventura in the first place. I think this is a first?
But this is good for people who want to be on Ventura, in my opinion... not being able to not update to Sonoma for now but that older OS is available.
Sometimes people want new hardware but not to deal with new software quirks that come with the 'latest and greatest' shipping OS. Downgrade ability.
Unless you are holding it wrong.
Wow this is kinda of a funny problem to have. On the one hand some folks want to be a version behind & that usually never allowed with new hardware from Apple.
I guess the M3 airs and mac minis are also sitting in a warehouse!
What a cluster. Typical of Apple these days. Don't worry about getting it right, the customer can fix it for Apple and thereby reduce our costs (and by the way Value).
It’s not the end of the world. Mistakes happen. It’s an easy fix manually or stay on Ventura for the non- tech users until Apple fixes the OTA update. Not a big deal.
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I wonder if they are shipping Macs on the slow boat across the Pacific to save on shipping costs, and to accommodate for the slow freight method they started stockpiling months ago resulting in this issue.
The problem is not shipping with Ventura... It's how dumb it is that they didn't update the servers to account for the launch.
Tweet shows macOS Ventura 13.5 (22G2074) which was released July 2023
No wonder I rarely come to this site - the reader angst is off the charts over the smallest of developments. The only noteworthy part of this discussion is that they apparently have had the M3 stockpiled for months. -
I’m pretty sure it’s happened previously When the initial Macs shipped with the previous OS. If I were to guess, when these M3 SoCs were ready for OS installation, the Sonoma final release probably wasn’t ready so they installed Ventura.
Please DM me if you got one of the new Macs running this version of Ventura 13.5 (22G2074 or maybe 22G2080), or a special preinstalled version of Sonoma 14.1 (23B2073), so that before you update it, I can walk you through the process of dumping the OS for archival purposes, since Apple doesn't provide downloads for them. It only requires a boot into the recoveryOS, a few terminal commands, and some external storage (with at least as much capacity as the Mac's internal storage).
Not many people want these OS's, but they won't be able to have them if no one archives them.
Not many people want these OS's, but they won't be able to have them if no one archives them.
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If I would work at the warehouse I would send all macs with Snow Leopard installed (like a Hackintosh)
Feature - not bug!
Oh, the excitement of upgrade-to-a-new-major-OS-version-day - why deny the M3 customers that thrill?
Oh, the excitement of upgrade-to-a-new-major-OS-version-day - why deny the M3 customers that thrill?
