upgrade mac operating system from 10.6.8

Note the horizontal scrollbar on the bottom of this tip to show the Mac Pro compatibility is beyond the width of this tip's layout.Įvery Mac released on or after an operating system release can't run an older version of Mac OS. This shows the upgrade paths up to Catalina for all Intel Macs, and their Model Identifiers.Įach row in the table indicates the earliest Apple supported Mac by each starting OS and end OS configuration. The EMC# indicated for some of these models is sometimes there,Īnd sometimes on a label on the machine itself. The table below includes the Machine ID/Model Identifier, that comes from the System Profiler, found under Apple menu -> About This Mac -> System Report (or System Profiler) -> Hardware. If you are looking for a specific update to one of the upgrades below, my other tip can help.

Apple does offer a Feedback page if you want it for other systems. This necessitates recommending jumping to 10.12 where possible for 10.7 or later users. The other riddle is that Apple has only made 10.11 available on the App Storeįor 10.6.8. This is why some Macs below are separated by whether or not they need system specific 10.6 or 10.6.3 release. Note, 10.6.3 is the last retail release of Snow Leopard on CD. It is maintained on my website, which may get compensation for me.īackup (link explains how and why) your data before any installation.Īpple's operating system upgrades for Intel Macs are:ġ0.4 Tiger - only available on original installer discs for Intel Macs, not retail, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard (10.6.6 includes the Mac App Store for 10.7 or later, 10.6.8 for 10.8 or later),ġ0.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, 11 Big Sur, and Monterey.ġ0.x.y - the y value is an update, and there are security updates that are available post the last update numerically that match up with the security updates of the next two upgrades (these have always included an update to Safari, though some browsersĪre available for older operating systems that are newer than the last Safari release for that operating system).Īpple is still including the installers for 10.10 through 11.0 on its website.

This is a mirror of the tip on stored to retain the original formatting after the communities formatting change of 2018. Upgrade Paths for Macs running Intel CPUs Upgrade Paths for Macs running Intel CPUs

Upgrade mac operating system from 10.6.8