I have a macbook i bought in 2011. Should I update my operating system.

Im using osx 10.6.8 on a mac book bought in 2011. should i update? obviously I don't know much about this stuff. Any help would be great.

Reasons to update include:
1. New features that are useful to you.
There are many new features between 10.6 and 10.10. Many of them involve iCloud, which allows syncing of content across your Apple devices. Some involve efficiency, increasing battery life and reducing CPU load. You can find reviews of each of the OS versions since SL online. Read them, and see if you think the features are of use to you.
2. Compatibility with application software that you want to run.
If you need to use particular apps, then you might want to use the latest versions, and they may require using a newer OS.
3. Bug fixes and security.
Whilst no release is bug-free, there is a general movement to get bugs fixed. Yosemite has benefitted from the public beta to have a lot of issues reported and fixed. It also includes security fixes that prevent malware from attacking your computer.
Reasons not to update:
1. Older software may not work at all or well on a newer OS.
You will have to make sure that all your applications, hardware drivers and other software is compatible with Yosemite. This may involve having to buy new versions. Snow Leopard is the last version that can run old PPC software, written for pre-2006 Macs.
2. Things are different!
A lot of changes have been made to the interface since SL. You will need to get used to them.
You could always install Yosemite on an external drive, and give it a test drive!

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Dear John,
thank you for your prompt reply. After I sent the email, I left the wheel spinning to see if it would eventually stop. It didn't, but after a while the screen turned blue, so I decided to switch everything off with a forced shut-down. I could not restart with the OS DVDs because I am currently away from home, but fortunately everything was more or less fine after restarting. It then got stuck again, I forced it shut again, restarted again, and now it seem to work but I won't overdo it and will switch off smoothly after writing this (unless it gets stuck again). Last April I have replaced the HD, so it's now just under 6 months old. And, of course, since the crash occurred when I was abroad and had backed up just before I left, I have lost only a few days' work. Still, and I know this will make me hugely unpopular here, with my 5 previous laptops running on MS Windows I never had a problem. Which does not mean I loved the OS, or I would not have switched to Mac.
Anyway, and this is the main reason for this message, thank you very much again for your speedy intervention.
Claudia

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I have a macbook air bought in 2010. It has liquid damage that might or might not affected the SSD card. I need the data on my SSD card for work and I need it urgently. Apparently Apple won't get the data out, even if I have apple care... Licensed apple dealers need to have the same macbook air model so they can insert the SSD card and check whether the data is there, and they never seem to have one...
I'm really disappointed with apple. It's been two weeks and I haven't been able to find out whether the SSD card is holding my data. It can't take that long to do it in store... How can they sell a product and then wash their hands on the matter?
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See this link for a 4870 card, best instructs for flashing for a noob like me. (last lowest price was $150 for a 1GB vRAM 4870 from TigerDirect).
http://web.me.com/jacobcroft/4870Flash/4870Flash.html
However, not every 4870 card will work with the ROM currently floating around out there. BEWARE!
Link to recovering a bricked card:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=64328

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Retail comes with both. Or you can save on just buying 64-bit System Builder disc.
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Sounds like the hard dre has left the building, Died, in the Sh*tter, Gone to the hard drive resting place in the sky.
Buy a new drive connect it to the system with a SATA to USB adapter and see if you can install Mt Lion on that drive connected externally. If you can then the drive inside your system has failed.
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I may get shot down here, but I like having storage centralised, backed up etc, so I would use the internal storage for the day to day stuff, and anything more dated, and large, then dump it on an external, with backup.
I've heard some horror stories about larger capacity drives getting over hot, and failing in some machines. Not macs particularly though.

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EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
Report generated 28 September 2014 16:16:39 GMT+3
Hardware Information: ?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information: ?
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ?
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 0 days 4:59:22
Disk Information: ?
TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.3 GB (203.96 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information: ?
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Vodafone (ZTE) Vodafone Mobile Broadband K3565-Z
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information: ?
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ?
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ?
[not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ModemDriverMac (1.0.2d1) Support
[loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMData (1.3.1) Support
[not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBMassStorageFilter (1.3.1) Support
[not loaded] com.roxio.BluRaySupport (1.1.6) Support
[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (2.0) Support
Startup Items: ?
HWNetMgr: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr
HWPortDetect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect
StartOuc: Path: /Library/StartupItems/StartOuc
Launch Daemons: ?
[running] cn.com.zte.PPPMonitor.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[running] PPPMonitord.plist Support
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[running] cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist Support
[running] com.hp.devicemonitor.plist Support
[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist Support
[running] Swapper.plist Support
User Login Items: ?
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins: ?
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Safari Extensions: ?
AdBlock-2
Audio Plug-ins: ?
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins: ?
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes: ?
Flash Player Support
MacFUSE Support
Tuxera NTFS Support
Time Machine: ?
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ?
      5% Safari
      3% WindowServer
      2% BitTorrent
      2% hidd
      0% softwareupdated
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229 MB Safari
160 MB softwareupdated
156 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
135 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
102 MB VLC
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45 MB Free RAM
1.55 GB Active RAM
1.52 GB Inactive RAM
895 MB Wired RAM
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