Thanks! I also have the 13" and 15 " base midnight air and I love that color also.
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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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There's absolutely nothing wrong with people being annoyed that their brand new 1600 dollar laptop came with an old OS and was unable to be upgraded out of the box.
It is ok to call Apple out if they get something wrong or make a mistake, they aren't perfect.
It's silly to be annoyed by this.
It's not silly to be annoyed by this.
I received my MBP M3Pro 14" with Sonoma 14.1.1. Problem is, I backed my M1 MBP to Time Machine on 14.2 Beta 1 and can't restore until the new MBP is on the same OS. I have my iCloud access but would likely have to download all my apps again and log into everything I need to log into.... sigh. Maybe in the next day or two? I am off Friday and was hoping to ship my laptop back for the trade up program. Anyone have any thoughts!!!
That's what seems like the big mistake with this.
I suspect Apple's systems for uploading updates to their CDNs may run on a fixed schedule every day - it certainly seems like all Apple software releases go live around the time time.
If that's the case, they should have pushed this out to the CDN on Monday, that way regardless of how early the UPS (or whoever does their deliveries in Europe) truck turned up, the proper update was available for the person unboxing their new machine. The mistake here seems to be that they pushed the update to the CDN on the Tuesday timeline, i.e. around 1-2PM Eastern Tuesday, when that's the end of the day in Europe and plenty of machines would have been delivered/unboxed/etc in eastern North America too.
I’m not worried. Was just curious but thanks for trying to console me…?
Weird, I don't think there has ever been a case of Apple releasing a device that wasn't pre-installed with the latest software, much less running into compatibility issues.
Always a big risk installing the latest OS before it's had a few iterations to iron out any issues. Much safer to wait a few months.
And by dodging a bullet, I mean, typically Apple releases a new macOS version with new major machine releases, AND if you buy one of these machines, it comes installed with the brand new OS version, and they don't allow installation of previous OS versions. Thus is the new OS version turns out to have some annoying bugs or issues, then you are stuck with it until they issue a fix.
I delayed buying my 2021 16" M1P MBP by a few months for two reasons:
- I wanted to make sure there were no major hardware issues with these brand new, 1st iteration, 14/16" machines. Especially after the endless debacles with the Butterfly generation machines.
- I wanted to make sure there were no major hardware issues with the brand new macOS Ventura.
Honestly, kinda sloppy guys. Steve would have ********** people for this. Not that he was a perfect CEO or leader by any means, but kinda ruins the illusion of "the best and fastest laptop in the world" when you can't ship it with the proper software installed. I could fix this in an hour by downloading the DMG and installing off USB, but not everyone's that clever.
“You’re holding it wrong”.
”Here’s a free silicon bumper to fix our error.”
~Steve Jobs
Just took delivery of my 15" MacBook Air. Ships with Sonoma 14.0. Software update page says "your device is up to date". Any recommendations. I did use the terminal command "sudo softwareupdate -i -a -R", which reported the same note.
Not sure what changed. Could have been the 14.2 update release. I can confirm that I am currently downloading the latest MacOS version.