el capitan

Hey, this is my first post on the site, nice to meet you all. Please help me determine if I can upgrade my OS, to what level I should, and if doing so will fix my problem. I got an excellent macbook pro 8 years ago, but that was 8 years ago. Originally it had 10.9 Mavericks on it and it was...

Hello, I new to the MacRumours forum. I found my father's old Mac Pro 2,1, and we decided to start using it again. It is the 3.0 8core with 12gb of Ddr2 ram. It has no HDD and no graphics card. I have a spare HDD with no OS, but no graphics card. I want to upgrade it to El Capitan, but I read...

Hi, I am almost ready to update my Mac Pro 1,1 to El Capitan. It now has an original 7300GT 256mb and 12gb RAM. I read some people say El Capitan disabled bluetooth and wifi, and others that don't. I only have apple wireless keyboards, and if bluetooth gets disabled I cannot use a keyboard. Do...

Good morning, just looking for some thoughts on my MacBook. So I have a late 2008 MacBook unibody, while it isn't fast, it's been fully upgraded including an SSD and works perfect for casual browsing and Netflix while at my Dr. Recently my old girl finally bit the dust (Dell D630C w/Windows10...

I'm going to buy a 2017, 15.4 inch, i7 Quad Core 512SSD, Macbook Pro with OS X mojave already installed. My question is if I can downgrade it to OS X el capitan (or sierra). I think (but i'm not 100% sure) this model came out back in june 2017 with High sierra. Can I in this case install el...

Hello, I have an old MacBook Pro 13" 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i5 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 (mid 2012?). I have been using 10.8.5 Mountain Lion, ever since I bought this computer when it was new. If I did not need certain software that requires 10.9/10.10 or newer, I would keep my mac exactly how it is now...

Howdy all, I was recently given an early-2008 iMac (specifically, this one) of the 3.06GHz variety. I was told that the machine had a dead hard drive, so upon receiving the machine, I disassembled it entirely, replaced the thermal paste on the GPU and CPU, then put it back together with a new...

Hello, Very new to the forum so I hope you can assist. I have read threads on here that half answer this, which I've followed but now at a sticking point. I have a 2007 Mac Pro 1,1 that I have upgraded with: 32GB Ram GeForce GTX 680 2GB Matched pair of Intel Xeon X5365 3GHz Quad core CPU...

I didn't see a thread about this, but it may already have been reported here... right now one of the more active threads on the Apple community forums is around Apple Music, which stopped functioning for anyone using El Capitan (10.11.6) about two weeks ago. About 600-700 users so far have...

Should I try to upgrade my Mid-2011 27" i5 iMac from El Capitan to something more recent before trying to sell it? I'm only looking to get about $200 for it, so don't particularly want to go through much more effort than I've already done with wiping the hard drive, reinstalling a clean El...

Hello, I am currently using ibooks to sync books to my ipad and iPhone. and I have a question, when I go into the books folder. I see a bunch of books that have been renamed to long file name with letters and numbers. why is that? also I added a few new books and when I try to sync them...

I am working on a family member's Mac Pro 1,1 that they bought on eBay for cheap. It wasn't booting at all. I struggled to get the machine to see my patched El Capitan USB stick. However, after about a million random attempts, it booted to the USB when I held down the C key (why, I don't know...

I have a mid 2011 iMac which was working fine, but slowing down a bit, so I preemptively had the HD replaced by an authorized Mac repair. He put High Sierra on it, but since then, the fans are blowing crazy (lots of folks are having this problem it seems) and I don't see any improvement over El...

I finally talked my mom into replacing her 2008 MacBook (El Capitan 10.11.6) with a 2019 iMac (Mojave 10.14.5). Last year I bought her a WD Passport Ultra 1Tb to serve as her Time Machine. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6). I backed her 2008 MacBook up tonight with her Passport...

Hi all, Long time lurker here. We have a 5,1 Pro tower at my work and we're looking to get a new GPU to replace the ATI Radeon HD 5770 card with something a bit beefier. Trying to get the most life out of the machine so we're doing whatever upgrades we can and planning to do a clean install of...

Hi This is my first post so forgive me if I am talking rubbish. I have Mac Pro 1,1 that i successfully piked and it is happily running El Capitan (10.11). I decided i wanted it to use wifi so i bought and installed a compatible airport card. It was not instantly recognised by the system as i...

I never gave up on iTunes 10.7 and got it to work on Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra without losing Mac App Store’s (MAS) functionality. Might also work on Mojave (but I haven’t tested it yet). Here are the steps I follow to revert iTunes 12 to 10.7...

So after two long weeks of trial and error i FINALLY got El Capitan 10.11.4 up and running on the old mac pro 1,1 WITH a boot screen. Now i am extremely hesitant to install any further updates. Luckily the DMG i acquired was already 10.11.4, however, with automatic updates turned off, i have...

About a week ago i walked outside my apartment to go to work and i saw a diamond in the rough, a Mac Pro 1.1 in good physical condition sitting near a dumpster. I didnt want to be seen taking someones "garbage" so i waited until later that night hoping it would still be there.. and it was, so i...

I was planning on selling my macbook so i erased the hard drive but I accidentally erased the startup disk and when I try to reinstall OS X EL CAPITAN it tells me "this item is temporarily unavaiable please try again later"