I have a 2008 imac running OS 10.6.8. I love it. I need some apps that need yosemite, as Capture One Pro.
I have read it is possible to dual boot, that is use yosemite from an external hard drive, do mystuff, then switch back to 10.6.8.
Will this work? Or, if I boot yosemite from the external hard drive, will it "do something" to my computer (I don't know... reprogram my graphic card so it will only work with yosemite, whatever).
Thanks, Chris
Yes, it’ll work.
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Yes, it’ll work.
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Do you already have Yosemite? As in did you download it anywhere while Yosemite was still available? If not, then you will either need to upgrade to El Capitan, or go to an Apple Store and see if they will install Yosemite. Because other wise Yosemite is not available for new downloads, only to people that previously downloaded it.
Although 2 Gigs of RAM is the minimum required for El Capitan, 4 Gigs or more would be preferable. 6 Gigs is the maximum for an Early 2008 iMac.
It helps to provide as much information about your Mac as possible, i.e., amount of RAM.
As Bob has pointed out, as of the introduction of El Capitan, last September, Yosemite is no longer available.
Note: Snow Leopard's Startup Disk in System Preferences won't be able to select the El Capitan startup drive properly. So, to boot from Snow Leopard to El Capitan, you will need to do it by holding down the Option when starting/restarting your Mac.
I have 4GB RAM. I have yosemite on my laptop, but El Capitan is just fine. Thanks for the option-key advise.
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