The latest version of Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) offers a lot of new features, including a new design and the ability to make iPhone calls from your browser. Fortunately, this upgrade won't cost you much time or any money. Here's how you can upgrade to Yosemite from OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) or higher. In addition to a few minutes of your time, you will need 2GB of memory and 8GB of available disk space.
IM SO SORRY FOR THE SCREEN AGAIN LOL Any way this is how you update your mac to OS X Yosemite Remember: 1.OS X Yosemite can only be install for iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum. Upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard or Lion. If you’re running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) or Lion (10.7) and your Mac supports macOS Mojave, you will need to upgrade to El Capitan (10.11) first. Click here for instructions. Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later to install via the Mac App Store (v10.6.8 recommended) 7 GB of available disk space. To install OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks (currently unavailable) or OS X 10.10 Yosemite.you need one of these Macs: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion purchased emailed download code here. How to prepare your Mac for OS X 10.10 Yosemite Before you upgrade your Mac to Yosemite, you need to make sure your machine is up to the task. We present a quick, four-point checklist to help you. The classic OS X 10.12, or rather macOS upgrade, introduced tons of features anyone would still want on their Mac. Because, it's well-tested and secure. Now we'll take a quick look at the legendary macOS Sierra upgrade. (In case you want to upgrade your Mac to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, check out this guide.). Jul 25, 2011 About Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update. The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that: Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion.
1. Check your system hardware and software by going to the apple menu, and choosing “About this Mac.”
2. Click on the “More Info...” button. Mac OS X Yosemite requires Mac hardware from no later than 2007 to 2007. Visit Apple.com for more info.
3. Visit the Mac OS X Yosemite page on the Apple App store.
4. Click on the Download button to start downloading OS X Yosemite.
5. Click on the Free button and enter your Apple ID username and password to start downloading OS X Yosemite. This will take several minutes, and it will first close out all your open apps and restart.
6. Click Continue to start installing Yosemite.
MORE: OS X Yosemite Review
7. Agree to the Terms.
8. Choose the disk to install it on. Yosemite will default to your primary hard drive.
9. Login as an administrator.
10. Click Restart to restart your computer and install Yosemite.
11. If you want to set up iCloud, sign in with your Apple ID. Otherwise, click “Set Up Later.”
12. Review the list of incompatible software. Not all software will work on Yosemite, so you should make a note of the apps that won't work, so you can update them or remove them.
13. Click Allow to allow your Mac to be used with “Find My Mac.”
14. Click Agree to agree to the Terms and Conditions.
15. Open the App Store to look for updates to your apps.
16. Look at the About this Mac (in the Apple menu) to see that you now have Yosemite installed.
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I have an old Mac, currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 'Snow Leopard' that I must upgrade to OS X 10.10 'Yosemite'. It has 8 GB RAM.
The 'About this Mac' gives me the following information:
Mac OS X Version 10.6.8
Processor: 3.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
The 'more info' gives me (among others):
Model name: iMac
Model identifier iMac 11,3
I first did the 'Software Updates' which was ready in a few minutes.
When I try the update to Yosemite, though, I get the spinning cursor and it stays that way. I thought that maybe it was just a huge download, so I left it on for the night. The next day, after more than 20 hours, I still saw the spinning cursor.
This Mac belongs to the workplace. An internet search told me to check the 'Purchases' tab on the App Store, but for that I need my boss's password. I'd rather not need that.
I do have admin privileges on the machine.
I've found the Console Messages, but the only thing I see there is 'This isn't a bitmap context. Forcing destination format to ARGB_8 for CG_Context'.
I've looked at this answer but I find that the CRL is already set to 'off'.
Network connectivity seems OK. Regular browsing works fine.
So - without access to the purchase record of the machine, but with admin privileges, how can I see what is going on? Ideally, how can I upgrade this machine to Yosemite?
Edit:
The problem seems to be with the App Store. I'm trying to install a free utility (Caffeine) and I get the same problem: the spinning cursor, but no actual progress.
4 Answers
If the desired Mac is slow, you can always use another Mac to do the download of the OS X installer.
- Make a guest account on that Mac and sign in with your AppleID since you'll want to shift off your boss's password and get everything under an ID you control.
- Go to the App Store and download the installer - but don't run it.
- Copy that installer application to a USB drive and take it to the slow mac.
The slow Mac probably needs a back up and possible Disk Utility to repair the catalog structure.
Worst case, you can order a USB media from Apple - call in to the sales number for your country and ask to purchase a media instead of a download. They often will help you enough to get your Mac upgraded for free.
Once you get the install running, you can look at /var/log/install.log to see the progress and where things get slow or hang.
Simply, you could download the standalone installer of the yosemite os. It comes as an app and you can easily run it on the old mac to upgrade it. You can download it here http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/48498/os-x-yosemite. note that some Mac models do not support this upgrade such as power PCs...for a full list of supported models, check here http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade. As long as you have the admin privilege(password) of the system,
Just clone from another mac using the required version you are looking for.
You should always see some continuing assurance ofof progress (as you said; spinner) on any download-- or quit & start again, making some changes, selectionsor adjustments to input. If the thing appears dead in 5 minutes, kick it & start again. 20 hr download times were entirealbums on Napster with a landline phone modem. LifeIs short & time is finite