Big Sur support on iMac late 2013

It's available over here in the UK. I get the option to download it but says "The request version of MacOS not found" I love the design of it after watching Computer clans video on it, its not fair at all, apple realli should lt people download it based of specs, not model!

So, as per my previous post, how do I get rid of an update that I can't update?

These iMacs cost a lot of money in 2014 so only after 6 years they are redundant? Thats about £250 per year or £5 per week, noy very cost effective Apple!!

well @Benzowner, it's nothing new that Apple products are overpriced for various reasons but same applies to your car most probably ;) I paid €2600 in 2013 for my late 2013 27" iMac which results in costs of €1 per day so far, disregarding the RAM upgrade I made later and also disregarding the new power supply that I installed myself two months ago. €1 per day for my most essential office tool is absolutely fine with me. I'm using the machine to create income. If you do such cost calculation for other consumer products that don't even create income ( cars, TV, etc.) the result will look even worse.

As long as MacOS Catalina is still supported you may not yet say that the machine is now redundant. I'm sure that I can still use my iMac for two more years at least.

I might then however return to Windows again as Apple now even more drastically unveiled their new price policy with the release of the latest Macs on which you can no longer upgrade SSD and RAM with third party components. Up to now this was a good way to keep the price level for a (new) Apple computer on an acceptable level. But Apple wants to squeeze even that extra profit out of their customers...I'm not sure that was a wise decision. Apple users are willing to pay more but there are limits and Apple is on a good way to overstress...

The installation is coming i have follow this

https://www.uubyte.com/install-macos-big-sur-on-unsupported-mac.html#:~:text=Step%201%3A%20First%20you%20need,installation%20on%20your%20unsupported%20Mac.&text=Step%202%3A%20After%20you%20have,3%3A%20Click%20on%20Install%20Assistant.

you have the link to download the files

i will tell you if it works

Agree in principal, but the main reason for changing to a Mac was to avoid the almost annual costs of upgrading Windows. My iPad is now stuck in the past, my iPhone I hope will be ok for a few more years. Being retired, the purchases were for longevity, fat hope :D

There is only a 30mph minimum speed limit on UK motorways :D and a Model T would be worth far more now than it was when new. The rest of your reasoning only justifies my point, or else we would all be living in the past .

And as TommyStories says, Apple have allowed several upgrade to older equipment which is causing users problems. They have obviously not thought this upgrade through, probably their own fault for making such good equipment.

with all due respect, between a reply like this and your seemingly hostile "model T" analogy

This poster is absolutely within his rights to be upset at an arbitrary line drawn in the sand that renders his very expensive piece of tech much closer to redundancy than it should be, given hardware specs. I am also quite frustrated with the situation, as I am also on a late-2013 iMac, one that I spent extra on at the time in an attempt to future-proof it more than the typical base-model Mac. Is there a legitimate, hardware-based reason that our machines aren't included in Apple's compatibility list? Probably; it seems like there is (based on a few other replies and my own research about this). Does that make my/his frustration unjustified or illegitimate? No.

Regardless of the tech reasoning behind the incompatibility, it doesn't feel great and doesn't help seeing other machines in the compatibility list that are objectively less powerful computers than what I/others have (and are excluded). Had Apple explicitly and publicly shared the reasoning behind the positioning of the line, I'd guess that people would feel less frustrated and cynical about it. I know I would have. But things like this are why I have, after 15+ years of being Mac and iOS exclusive, started to jump ship.

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Precisely!

and... Apple is supposed to be “Earth conscious” working to “save the environment” yet, they are taking an excellent product and trying to make it obsolete befits time!!

It’s absolutely no skin of their noses to support our iMacs too!!

we should make it known to the public.

“Or is it because I’m in Africa??”

lets start a Liberal movement against “ENGINEERED OBSOLESCENCE”

I do actually.

There are some valid questions about the top of the range computers from late 2013 compared to the bottom of the range computers from 2014. There may be valid architectural reasons and differences—although even older and less capable MacBook Pro’s are supported. I’m still curious about there being valid differences—I’d accept a minor architectural difference as explanation, but I’ve struggled to find one.

Your point is valid of course, the computer will continue to run the older OS and continue to do what it has always done.

Thank you. Well iterated.

my request is valid. It is polite. If the Beta runs beautifully then the release will be even better.

of course Catalina runs well, for now but that was not the request.

The truth is clearly that it is a request. It says from iMac 2012 and upward, but the release is for iMac 2014 and up, hence my request for the 2nd release to include earlier iMac... as a sign of caring for a few more iMac series. After all, we have all supported Apple in so many more ways and items.

This is clearly a case of kind support, from Apple

lkrupp wrote:

So when you “jump ship” do you plan to run Windows 10 on a nine year old PC? Let us know how that works out.

FWIW, Win10 20H2 works quite well on a 2011 Mini Server

At least for an HTPC.

😁

Okay, if what you say is correct, I only ask the Big Sur is released to 2012 and later until iMac with Apple Silicon iMacs are available??

what is so wrong with that?

PS. My iMac is running so well!

I have moved all my data onto the cloud ☁️

I have a clean iMac (use a software cleaner)

uninstall Apps you don’t use.

I have a very quick iMac on a very high speed Fibre line.

so why Big Sur?

the inter-relationship with all my iPhones, iPads and exposure/training with Big Sur until iMac Apple Silicon is out: then I’ll “jump ship” to my next iMac 27...29 inch BUT, I’ll still use and have my late 2013 27 inch iMac 🖥 then I’ll upgrade it to an SSD drive...

RiverDee wrote:

Don’t be aggressive

Help rather than hinder.

as a level 5 we all expect better.

answer in the positive

Do you know how we higher levels get points? We get points when other users mark our advice or solutions as “helpful”, “solved”. We also get points when Apple marks our posts as “Recommended by Apple” Points are not awarded by simply posting hundreds of times.

It’s hard not to be forceful when someone simply refuses to accept the facts. And especially hard when that someone starts baselessly accusing Apple of skulduggery and nefarious intentions when the facts don’t support any such nonsense.

I have a late 2013 iMac with i7 processor with 2Gb video card. I also have a mid-2014 MacBook Pro with an i5 and much lower performance on Catalina.

I don't understand why one upgrades and the other doesn't.

If it is for graphics, the iMac has 2gb of graphics memory and the MacBook Pro 1gb and the metal version of the iMac is 1.4 and the MacBook Pro 1.

probably no body knows . This patch is made by severals developers . Then I can back in Catalina with my time machine back up . It was for curiosity because with an iMac built in personnel configuration I don't understand what it can be bad for it.

But you have reason, and I will not waiting the next update to know it's good or not.

have a nice day