Q: Can I download El Capitan for older hardware?
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Sep 27, 2016 6:34 AMby Barney-15E,HelpfulSee the section about how to get El Capitan in this article: Upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support
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Sep 27, 2016 4:17 AMby anonyme4321,Hi liam1101,
Try this link https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886 and go to "How to get El Capitan" section.
Hope that helps
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Sep 27, 2016 6:33 AMby Lexiepex,HelpfulYour mid/late 2007 macbookpros can run El Capitan (even Sierra, with a lot of features impossible).
Be aware that the 4GB Ram is just enough to run ElCapitan, but if you start ram-hungry apps, it will slow down to a standstill.
Apple says that 4GB of Ram is the maximum. Later experience says that you can upgrade to 6GB of ram, more ram will not be addressed.
For the mid-2007 iMac it is he same.
Lex
PS: It seems that Mavericks is no longer supported for security updates by apple. Yosemite is. My personal experience is that Yosemite does not use more ram than Mavericks. You should either stay with Mavericks or try finding Yosemite.For installing ElCapitan: do it only with 6GB, but even with 6GB it is close.
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Sep 27, 2016 6:39 AMby liam1101,Ok; now I'm a little panicked. As a starter, I tried to download El Capitan for my mid-2010 13" MBP. The App Store found it (via Upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support) but when I clicked on "Get," the App Store said "This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer." I'm currently running 10.9.5; do I have to first upgrade to Yosemite? If so, my understanding is that Yosemite is no longer available on the App Store.
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Sep 27, 2016 7:40 AMby Lexiepex,You do not have to go to Yosemite first, you can go directly to El Capitan.
It should install correctly from the app store. If not make a bootable stick with ElCapitan and install it from that, is the correct solution as anonyme4321 said. Download ElCapitan on another mac and make the bootable stick there. Then use the bootable stick on your mac.
PS: you should download it on another mac that already has or had it on it: look in the "purchased" tab in the AppStore and download it there.
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Sep 27, 2016 11:23 AMby liam1101,The "download elsewhere and make a bootable USB stick" won't work for me; I haven't any computers with El Capitan installed. (They're all Mavericks or Yosemite.) I'm intrigued by the comment "It should install correctly from the app store." If that's true - and it makes sense - what would cause it to not succeed?
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Sep 27, 2016 4:20 PMby Barney-15E,liam1101 wrote:
Ok; now I'm a little panicked. As a starter, I tried to download El Capitan for my mid-2010 13" MBP. The App Store found it (via Upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support) but when I clicked on "Get," the App Store said "This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer."
As you have a Mac capable of running Sierra, you cannot install El Capitan. That download is meant solely for those that cannot run Sierra, or have Snow Leopard installed because you can't update directly from Snow Leopard to Sierra.
Once an OS is released, all previous versions are removed from distribution.
