> All recent MacBooks I have seen insist rather hard to be paired with an account and a credit card number. That is completely untrue, unless you are seeing so

> All recent MacBooks I have seen insist rather hard to be paired with an account and a credit card number. That is completely untrue, unless you are seeing some weird install of OS X. But you're not, you're making stuff up. You can skip the product registration and you can skip signing in with your Apple ID and essentially have an "anonymous" install with little effort.