Has MDM lock for Winthrop University. Was able to do clean install and bypass by doing full install of Monterey without connecting to network, then adding some Apple MDM domains to the hosts file to prevent it from checking. Seems to work well and I don’t get any nagging prompts and the machine still claims to not have MDM. I believe this was only made possible due to the lack of T2 chip on this model.

The most controversial professional Mac Apple ever built. Announced with the memorable 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass' from Phil Schiller, the cylindrical design required custom dual GPUs that couldn't be independently upgraded. By 2017 Apple publicly apologized for it, acknowledging the thermal design had trapped them. Now a cult object — the machine that forced Apple to rethink what professional users actually needed.

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