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Had a computer meltdown. New hard drive. Currently have ElCapitan for cnvenience and easy to manage. Lately new programmes require later upgrades to be able to be installed. How do I upgrade. What is the latest upgrade and how effective is it.
The model and year of your Mac will determine which macOS you can upgrade to,
read the following links.
https://support.apple.com/macos/mojave
How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support
Before upgrading make a full back up of your Mac.
Check that third party apps you use have updates available for the new OS.
Check that your printers/ scanners etc have updated drivers and software available for the new OS.
macOS Catalina 10.15 was released recently, the latest version of macOS.
If you are considering upgrading to Catalina be warned that it does not support 32bit apps.
Your Mac is probably running 32bit apps and these will need to be updated to 64bit apps,
some updates may be free, some may be paid. Use this app to discover which apps you have
are 32bit, https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/. Once the list has been created you can then
contact the developers of the apps to see if they provide 64bit updates.
The model and year of your Mac will determine which macOS you can upgrade to,
read the following links.
https://support.apple.com/macos/mojave
How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support
Before upgrading make a full back up of your Mac.
Check that third party apps you use have updates available for the new OS.
Check that your printers/ scanners etc have updated drivers and software available for the new OS.
macOS Catalina 10.15 was released recently, the latest version of macOS.
If you are considering upgrading to Catalina be warned that it does not support 32bit apps.
Your Mac is probably running 32bit apps and these will need to be updated to 64bit apps,
some updates may be free, some may be paid. Use this app to discover which apps you have
are 32bit, https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/. Once the list has been created you can then
contact the developers of the apps to see if they provide 64bit updates.
Thank you for your information. Interesting.
Mac pro mid 2010 17in. I suspect everything will work including printer as I had High Sierra before when the hard drive crashed.
What do you think?
Mike
Give it a go, but do your research first.
have elcapitan need to upgrade to operate later programmes
