2023-08-17 21:33:45
If you buy a Mac, a bad surprise can sometimes happen at the first start: an OS that is not necessarily up to date. And Apple obviously has a solution for that, which is to more or less force the user to perform the update in the installation wizard. Apple therefore forces the hand, even if the update is not mandatory. This solution is deployed in a specific case: when a Mac comes with a build specific to macOS. As Mr. Macintosh shows on X (the new name of Twitter), this is particularly the case on the 15-inch MacBook Air.
An update is available! (picture Mr. Macintosh)
The ability to update macOS directly from the install wizard is appeared according to him with macOS Monterey. It was also used with les MacBook Pro M2 and so now with the recently tested 15-inch MacBook Air.
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The different Macs have one thing in common in this case: the OS provided is a specific version of macOS, compiled exclusively for the Macs in question. This is a common practice at Apple: the system will integrate the drivers and any new features of the machine, before they are added in the next minor version. It is above all an interesting function for companies, which can unify the versions installed on the different Macs, while avoiding starting up a machine with a potentially obsolete OS.
The MacBook Air M1 was launched on macOS Big Sur.
Now, a question arises: will this function be generalized to other systems? It often happens that slightly older models — for example a MacBook Air M1 — arrive with a system that is sometimes largely obsolete, without the update to the latest version being highlighted. But while this idea can be interesting for companies, it has two flaws: some explicitly want an old OS and (especially) users do not necessarily have a sufficient connection to perform a macOS update on first boot. At the moment, there is always the possibility of performing the update later, in the worst case.
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