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		jjice on Nov 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next... This was a brand new machine sent to me by my company and it was preinstalled. Is it not bundled with a fresh install, but with a newly sold device?

warning26 on Nov 16, 2021 [–]

Correct -- newly sold devices include a bunch of preinstalled software that's not on the OS image by default.

Apple's done that for ages; I remember their earlier computers even came with a bunch of random games, like Nanosaur™.

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