![]() ![]() But there is also a case to be made for holding off until one gets a sense of how much else can be expected to "break" with an OS update. Yes it is possible to immediately upgrade a NOS Mac to macOS to Ventura. ![]() (What's "normal" to Apple and to a subset of affluent power users who have been conditioned to upgrade every 2-3 years strikes the rest of the world as nuts.) (I know because I am one of them, having just purchased a new 2020 27" iMac with Catalina pre-installed on Prime Day.) When a customer unboxes a new piece of hardware only to find upon that first hour of use that the App Store refuses, even, to permit a download of the original pre-installed OS for recovery purposes, the impression is that Apple is grossly overstepping the bounds. This discussion is still relevant because *new* 2020 Macs can still be found for purchase in 2023 from Best Buy, Amazon and elsewhere. ![]() (Doubtful, however, that anybody at Apple loses sleep over breaking stuff that their customers rely on and can't replace for one reason or another.) But at some point every OS leaves behind a certain percentage of hardware/software - and that short lifecycle seems to be what many take issue with. Indeed, there are newer macOS since Catalina, most of which are compatible with Macs built after ~2017. ![]()
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