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It would be great if it was possible to buy MacBooks with FreeBSD instead of OSX, which is lately bigger and slower compared to FreeBSD.l, especially due to the useless graphic effects and the bloatware installed (iTunes as example)

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I don't think iTunes comes pre-installed these days. It gets updated so frequently they decided to just prompt the user to do an install on first boot. Certainly if you do a fresh install of Mojave over the wire, as I did, it's pretty clean. No iTunes, Photos, iMovie, Pages or any of their pro-sumer stuff by default.

Good ninja edit, was about to tell you that you're wrong! iTunes most certainly does come pre-installed on 10.12, can't say about 10.14

I realized I was being a bit cavalier and did a bit of checking. Been a while since I bought a fresh Mac, but last time I must have done a fresh install off the wire straight away and forgotten about it. My bad.

I'm pretty sure iTunes still comes preinstalled in Mojave. Not to mention Chess, DVD Player, Home, News, Stocks, Books, and a fair amount of other crap.

I have a post-install script I always run that does sudo rm -rf on all the apps I don't like. Has no ill effects in all the years I have been using it, and makes my system feel clean.

I have it, and didn't intentionally install it. Maybe got installed after logged in with my AppleId? I'm not sure how it got there, but it did.

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