…no? There are reverse-engineered third-party tools for downloading ISOs (like macrecovery), but Apple doesn’t support officially support downloading macOS outside of their custom macOS-only tools. They do offer regular browser-based downloads up to macOS 15… but only in .dmg (again, back to either the catch 22 of need-macos-to-unpack-macos or time to use the hackintosh toys).

And once you do have the installer, macOS still won’t let you get past it either unless you have the right license key hardware dongle (motherboard).

And yes, there’s OSX-KVM to help you fake that for a VM, but it still spits on the EULA that dictates that you must only use macOS on official Apple hardware. By that claim, Windows is free because there’s hardware out there that comes bundled with OEM licenses!

But even that won’t help you now that macOS 27 doesn’t even run on any of your x86 CPUs anymore anyway.

All of this is completely unserious for a trillion dollar corporation that is asking you to do them a favour for free.

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