HT1444 how do i upgrade to the latest operating System such as Maverick?
I have operating system os x 10.6.8 and would like to upgrade to Maverick. Do I have to purchase this?
Please be aware (as no-one else has mentioned it)...:
If you upgrade to anything later than 10.6.8, NONE of your PowerPC software will run, as later OS X's don't have the Rosetta emulator. That might include, for example, all Adobe products prior to CS4, earlier versions of Quark, Apple Works, numerous games and utilities, a lot of shareware and donate-ware, etc. You should check first, using About This Mac / More Info... / Software / Applications (let it build the list, and sort by 'Kind' for easier checking); your Apps will be either Classic (they have never run on Intel Macs), PowerPC (needs 10.6 and Rosetta), Intel or Universal Binary (both ok in Lion or later for 95% of apps).
By the way, I'm running 10.6.8 on a Core i5 iMac 2011, and I have no problems with Vimeo.
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