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A MacOS Tahoe upgrade went south on a brand-new machine.
The solution to recover is not for the faint of heart.
If your Mac Studio is bricked, a DFU Revive/Restore is necessary.
Yesterday, I received my new Mac Studio M3 Ultra desktop computer. I decided to make the purchase because I was doing bigger and bigger video projects, and my Intel-based iMac wasn't up to the task.
The new machine has 96GB of RAM and that screaming M3 Ultra chip. Yeah, it's gonna be blazing fast.
As soon as it arrived, I began the process of unboxing everything, moving my iMac to another location, and setting up the Mac Studio. Everything went just fine... until it didn't.
After about an hour of using the machine, MacOS informed me that the update for Tahoe was available. Given how much I love MacOS 26 on my MacBook, I definitely wanted it on my Mac Studio. So, I okayed the upgrade.
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