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Saturday, 21 May 2016

How to Prepare Your Mac for OS X 10.11 EI Capitan

Apple has launched new OS X 10.11 EI Capitan in 2015. Is you MAC is competible with your new EI Capitan If yes then, how do you know about downloading and installing the new MAC OS? Read the following questions which is already in some of you minds. Here is some tips for the preparation of EI Capitan.

Prepare Your Mac for OS X 10.11 EI Capitan

1. Where can I download EI Capitan?
The new OS has been launched in 2015 and the users could download this OS from 30 of september, wednesday. You can download this EI Capitan from the Apple MAC Store.

2. What will be the cost for this new OS EI Capitan?
If you are thinking about the its costs and don't want to pay for this new OS and thinking that to pay for this new OS, you are happy with your old one. But don't think too much. You have not to pay any penny from your wallet. This is absolutely free of cost like OS X 10.10 Yosemite before the EI Capitan.

3. Will my old MAC be compatible with this new OS EI Capitan 10.11?
The minimum harware requirements for OS X 10.11 EI Capitan remain as the old Yosemite. Here the MACs model that will run EI Capitan.
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)

If you have not updated your MAC OS in a no. of years, then you need to check to see which version on OS X you are using. To run the new OS EI Capitan your MAC should have running at least OS X 10.6.8 snow leapard which was launched in 2009. This is the new update of 10.6.6. You can download EI Capitan one when your MAC is running following versions of Operating System.
OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8)
OS X Lion (10.7)
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
OS X Mavericks (10.9)
OS X Yosemite (10.10)
If your MAC is not running with snow leopard then you can buy Snow Leopard for $19.99 from here.

4. How do I find out what vintage Mac I have and what version of OS X it's running?
Just click on the Apple button on the upper left corner of your MAC and choose about this MAC. For the older versions you can check your OS information by clicking on the more info button to view your MAC's year.

Space You Need to Download New OS EI Capitan

5. How much space I need to download this new OS EI Capitan?
Apple has not reveal that how Much space it will take after downloading. But according to the Yosemite OS X 10.10, you'll need only 8 GB of hard disk space and 2GB of memory space to run this OS.

You can check how much space and memory your MAC has. This can be done by clicking on About This MAC from Apple Menu.

6. Should we need to take backup of my MAC before installing EI Capitan?
Of course! Whenever you want to change something related to OS, you should have to take backup of your data firstly. Because you don't want to loose your meeting files and important personal file, images, videos you have clicked for remembrance of the precious moment you spend. There is a tool in MAC to take backup easily: Time Machine.

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