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Dear brain trust,
I finally have a new Mac, but it came with OS 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). I'd like to update to El Capitan. No problem, I figured; my older Mac was practically begging me to do this for a couple months, but I wasn't going to risk it on an older machine.
So -- I'm moved in, most (but not all) things work (I might need to just re-buy Pages), time to look at the OS -- and El Capitan isn't available from the Apple app store. They really want you to install Sierra.
I've heard some uncomfortable things about Sierra, particularly relating to applications that didn't come from or get blessed by Apple. It's my machine; I get to decide what I install on it, and I very much doubt that some of the obscure stuff I need has been vetted by Apple. I want El Capitan, not Sierra.
Googling leads me to a few pages on sites called things like "Tom's Downloads" where I can, allegedly, download it, but I don't know what's safe and what's not there. I should also mention that I have never, ever upgraded an OS before; I use machines with their original OSs until they die and I buy new ones. Or did before I switched teams from Windows to Mac, anyway; my Macs last a lot longer than my PCs did. Anyway, I'm just saying this to set expectations about my level of experience and knowledge here.
Where, oh brain trust, can I get a safe, easy-to-install copy of El Capitan (10.11)?
I finally have a new Mac, but it came with OS 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). I'd like to update to El Capitan. No problem, I figured; my older Mac was practically begging me to do this for a couple months, but I wasn't going to risk it on an older machine.
So -- I'm moved in, most (but not all) things work (I might need to just re-buy Pages), time to look at the OS -- and El Capitan isn't available from the Apple app store. They really want you to install Sierra.
I've heard some uncomfortable things about Sierra, particularly relating to applications that didn't come from or get blessed by Apple. It's my machine; I get to decide what I install on it, and I very much doubt that some of the obscure stuff I need has been vetted by Apple. I want El Capitan, not Sierra.
Googling leads me to a few pages on sites called things like "Tom's Downloads" where I can, allegedly, download it, but I don't know what's safe and what's not there. I should also mention that I have never, ever upgraded an OS before; I use machines with their original OSs until they die and I buy new ones. Or did before I switched teams from Windows to Mac, anyway; my Macs last a lot longer than my PCs did. Anyway, I'm just saying this to set expectations about my level of experience and knowledge here.
Where, oh brain trust, can I get a safe, easy-to-install copy of El Capitan (10.11)?
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There is, hidden away on the mac forums, a link (which goes to the app store) for those
ludditesunfortunatespeople using older hardware which can't Run Sierra. Our problem was that the new iMac that Joy bought knows it can run Sierra, so won't use the link; my old macbook which probably can't run Sierra isn't on a new enough version of itunes, and I don't feel like updating it right now. Also if you have a machine running 10.6.8, it needs to upgrade to El Capitan first, even if it *could* run Sierra.Oh, here's the URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886