I'm getting a sinking feeling. The tech at the Genius Bar when I picked it up assured me it was running lion. They may be shipping everything out with Mavericks, which means nobody can run a lot of their legacy software.
Did Mavericks break any more software than any other OS X upgrade (Lion in particular)?
And I stand with why Mavericks and not Yosemite?
I'm really curious to see how this plays out; Apple's entire refurb business will be cast in an ugly new light if your experience is pervasive and ongoing (Edit:) and nobody knows what they're buying until they get it and find out that it's not what they expected.
I just looked at what I think is your refurb at
Refurbished Mac - Apple Certified - Apple Store (U.S.) and saw
this, i.e. that the pic on the screen is Yosemite.
Huh?