When Apple announced the M3 24-inch iMac and M3 Pro/Max 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros on October 31, 2023, the unveiling came more than a month after it made the macOS Sonoma software update available for download by anyone who wants it. That is, so long as you don't own one of those new machines.
As people who got their orders in nice and early have started to receive their new Macs we're beginning to hear more and more that they all appear to arrive with macOS Ventura preinstalled, not Sonoma. That in itself is interesting given the timelines in play, but that isn't even the strangest thing about these new Macs.
