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melskie12
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Q: upgrade to Mavericks

I was advised to purchase and install OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 because I would be able to upgrade to Mavericks OS.  I installed and tried to up grade to Mavericks and message back says I cannot load on this computer. My Mac notebook is 6 years old. After some searching I found out that if I download 10.6.8 Snow Leopard it should work for Mavericks. Apparently that was wrong as well. Any ideas out there on what I can do or am I flogging a dead horse trying to upgrade

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Mar 28, 2014 3:55 PM

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melskie12

Q: upgrade to Mavericks

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  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 28, 2014 3:57 PM in response to melskie12
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    Mar 28, 2014 3:57 PM in response to melskie12

    melskie12 wrote:

     

    I was advised to purchase and install OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 because I would be able to upgrade to Mavericks OS.  I installed and tried to up grade to Mavericks and message back says I cannot load on this computer. My Mac notebook is 6 years old. After some searching I found out that if I download 10.6.8 Snow Leopard it should work for Mavericks. Apparently that was wrong as well. Any ideas out there on what I can do or am I flogging a dead horse trying to upgrade

    If your computer is compatable to install Mavericks, then you do it through the App Store which would have been included in your Applications when you updated to 10.6.8

     

    Check your model here

    http://www.apple.com/au/osx/specs/

     

    Pete