Macbook pro mid 2009 - best operating system?

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Macbook pro mid 2009 - best operating system?

I have a 2009 Macbook Pro 15" with Snow Leopard as its operating system and I'd like to upgrade. But I've been unable to put El Capitan on the machine after trying a bootable flash drive as well as downloading from Apple and installing. Yosemite is the only other option from Apple's website. Is there a reason anyone knows why I shouldn't try Yosemite? Is there anything I need to know like the date change issue required to get El Capitan to work?

MacBook Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on Apr 7, 2021 4:27 PM

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brbo

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Apr 7, 2021 4:33 PM in response to rscb

Hi rscb,

Welcome to the Apple Community where some of us do our best to help each other.

Apple Support has pages online to help you with the info. you seek.

Identify your MacBook Pro model (from early 2008 on up)

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201300

"How to get old versions of MacOS"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

Hope this helps,

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