Q: Can my MacBookPro 3,1 be upgraded to Maverick?

I think it can since a 3.1 is capable of running Mt. Lion.  My understanding is that Mavericks has features that utilize RAM more efficiently so you may experience better results.

You do know that a 3.1 MBP can utilize 6 GB RAM.  If you have less than that, consider an upgrade.

Ciao.

Hi everyone, has the OP or anyone else tried Mavericks on a MBP 3.1 that had been running 10.6.8?  Thanks!

I just completed the upgrade with MBP 3,1 (running 10.6.8) and had some issues with the hard disk (couldn't install without recovery mode and had to wipe it re-install snow leopard and then install mavericks and re-transfer my backup from time machine, but ultimately everything worked fine. Only problem is I'm running only 2 GB ram and seems to be a little sluggish, so I'm gonna upgrade to a 2x4 memory configuration so I can run 6 GB.

Thanks for sharing your experience!  Im glad you were able to get it working; that doesn't exactly sound painless.  Has anyone else gotten 10.9 to run on a MBP 3,1?

Before you do, don't forget about Rosetta.

Im currently running my Macbook Pro 3,1 on Maverick 10.9. No problems other than some external monitor issues that I still need figured out

I installed mavericks on my 3,1 - and yeah, with the stock 2gb RAM it's definitely sluggish. I mainly use it to broadcast a 'net radio show - keep music on an external and run it through itunes. the Original 120GB hd is on it's way out - failed a SMART scan, so planning on upgrading the internal guts in the next few weeks. Likely going to remove the optical drive & pop in a 64 or 128GB SSD for the boot volume (Just need to find the bloody bracket to do so!) and also going to replace the original 120HDD with a 1tb Hybrid for media storage... Once that's done, I'll likely max out the 6gb ram & replace the long-dead battery. It'll be an adventure, but hopefully I can get another few years out of her before she goes into retirement!

Yes.

Mine works fine so far.

Using FCP X 10.1 makes it labour at times so I'm going to try the 6 gig RAM trick.

Is there a preferred slot for placing 4 or 2 sticks?

Al

So I have the same 3,1 and i've already upgraded to 3 GB ram.  I also purchased (foolish i now realize) Lion and also Mountain Lion. I was able to upgrade to Lion 10.7.5, but it will not allow me download Mountain Lion.  It says it's not supported by this computer.  Any thoughts?

After reading the posts, I realzie I should probably purchase a 4 GB dimm to add to the existing 2 GB dimm. 

Aside from that, any helpful hints on getting beyond 10.7.5 would be awesome....

Tim

Update: My 15" Macbook Pro 3,1 is running great in 10.9.1 with 4 GB RAM.  I had replaced my old failing HDD with a hybrid SSD/HDD and that could account for some of the good performance.

If you're upgrading from 10.6.8 like I was, be prepared to have Autosave/Versions shoved down your throat.  I had to completely abandon Preview and TextEdit because not having "Save as..." was a dealbreaker with my workflow.  So far Skim and TextWrangler are proving to be worthy substitutes though.

Yes,  MBP 3.1 bought August 2007 with Snow Leopard on.  I upped the memory to 4Gb first though,  it's cheap and easy to do.

The Mavericks installation went v smoothly,  the only probs I had were old software that was past its best-before date.  Takes ages to do though!

I know that this is an old thread. But do you have the steps that you took to install Mavericks?  Was it just a case of using the recovery tool, or did you have to create a bootable USB drive?