If you have any PowerPC applications that rely on Rosetta to function on your Mac, any upgrade beyond 10.6 will break Rosetta and those apps will be dead as a stone.

So decline iOS major-version updates until you have confirmed through research that the iOS version will play with your MacOS version. They generally will talk to even a 2005 iPhoto/Photos, however the ability to sync with iTunes will vary. Each iOS version has limits on how much it will interact with older systems. You will have to be careful with iOS versions on your mobile devices, however. Apple made a point to have it support most of the early Intel-based machines (many owners had gotten unusually short useful lives out of their prior Mac due to the Intel switch, so Apple wanted them to have unusually long lives out of their first Intel Mac).Īnd OS X 10.11 is perfectly usable notably its web browser will support TLS 1.2, so it works properly with Web sites. Some people are skittish about running the latest version because they worry it'll bog their system see the last 3 paragraphs for answers on that.Įl Capitan (10.11) is a particular 'version sweet-spot'. Use resources on the web to determine the latest OS your system can support. Apple will still let you download older versions of the OS.

Your Mac can be functional at previous versions. You've already heard the bad news - you can't get the latest version.īy the way, you can't run Windows 10 on a 2006 PC either.īut you also don't need the latest version.

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