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Q: upgrading to mavericks

im getting a apple laptop that has lion on it and it has 1gb of ram and 160 gb hard drive how do i upgrade from lion to mavericks?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 5, 2016 4:49 PM

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  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Oct 5, 2016 10:37 PM in response to WOLFGANGK1LLER1
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    Oct 5, 2016 10:37 PM in response to WOLFGANGK1LLER1

    OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks is no longer avaiable for initial download from the Mac App Store.

     

    Your only options now are pay download code for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion or download the free macOS Sierra OR , possibly, OS X 10.11.6 El Capitán, assumimg your Apple MacBook is capable of running any of these.

     

    To download and install either the pay OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion or the free macOS Sierra OR  OS X 10.11.5 El Capitán you need one of these Macs:

     

    OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion purchased emailed download code here.

     

    http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion

     

    Apple will send you an email for the special download code for the Mac App Store, for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion within three days of purchasing the download code.

     

    iMac (Mid-2007 or later)

    MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)

    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),

    MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)

    MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)

    Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)

    Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)

    Xserve (Early 2009)

    Your Mac also needs:

    OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed

    2 GB or more of memory (I strongly advise, at least, 4 GBs of RAM or more)

    8 GB or more of available space

     

    For upgrading to macOS Sierra, you need to meet these minimum Mac system hardware requirements.

     

    MacBook (Late 2009 or newer)

    MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)

    MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)

    Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)

    iMac (Late 2009 or newer)

    Mac Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)

     

    These Mac hardware models need to be running OS X 10.7.5 Lion or later OS X version to upgrade and install macOS Sierra.

     

     

    Next,

    If you run any older Mac software from the earlier PowerPC Macs, then none of this software will work with the newer OS X versions (10.7 and onward). OS X Snow Leopard had a magical and invisible PowerPC emulation application, called Rosetta, that worked seamlessly in the background that still allowed older PowerPC coded software to still operate in a Intel CPU Mac.

    The use of Rosetta ended with OS X Snow Leopard as the Rosetta application was licensed to Apple, from a software company called Transitive, which got bought out, I believe, by IBM and Appe  could no longer secure their rights to continue to use Rosetta in later versions of OS X.

     

    So, you would need to check to see if you have software on your Mac that maybe older than, say, 2006 or older.

     

    Also, check for app compatibilty  here.

     

    http://roaringapps.com/

     

     

    If you have any commercial antivirus installed and/or hard drive cleaning apps installed on your Mac, like MacKeeper, CleanMyMac, TuneUpMyMac, MacCleanse, etc. now would be a good time to completely uninstall these apps by doing a Google search to learn how to properly uninstall these types of apps.

    These types of apps will only cause your Mac issues later after the install of the new OS X version and you will have to completely uninstall these types of apps later.

    Once you have determined all of this, you should be able to find the latest versions of OS X by clicking on the Mac App Store icon in the OS X Dock and then login to the Mac App Store using your Apple ID and password and if you purchased a download code, input that code.

    You can then begin the download and installation process of installing the newer versions of OS X from the Mac App Store.

     

    If your Apple MacBook meets the hardware requirements for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion, it can, also, run OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks.

     

    To get OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks, you may need to call your "local" Apple Store or Apple authorised dealer/service center to see if they can install OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks for you.

     

    You will, definitely, need to install more RAM into that Apple MacBook. 1 GB of RAM  isn't going to cut it!

     

    Correct and reliable Mac RAM can ONLY be purchased from online Mac RAM sources Crucial memory (crucial.com) or OWC (macsales.com).

     

    And you might want to consider getting some more external hard drive storage for that Apple MacBook as a 160 GB hard drive is pretty paltry for a full blown Mac OS X.

     

    Look to OWC (macsales.com) for portable, external hard drives, or larger internal hard drives or internal Solid State Drives (SSDs) to increase your data storage.

     

    Good Luck!

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 6, 2016 9:52 AM in response to WOLFGANGK1LLER1
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    Oct 6, 2016 9:52 AM in response to WOLFGANGK1LLER1

    Crucial

     

    Other World Computing 


    Also check to make sure there is a compatible driver for your printer.

     

    Do a backup before installing, preferable 2 backups on 2 different drives.