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A1278 2011 INSTALL
A1278 2011 UPGRADE
A1278 2011 SOFTWARE

2 different backup utilities going to 2 different backup devices (protects against bugs in the backup utility and a single device failure).

So that if something happens to your Mac, you still have your data.Ī good minimum backup strategy is what is called 3-2-1 You obviously mis-typed your Mac's year, as i5 CPU chips did not exist in 2001Ĭan you be more explicit about 'backing up my system'? I can't make another partition in my SSD because it's got a bunch of stuff including Windows.Ī backup is your data on another storage system that is external to your Mac. My current Mac has 16GB RAM and an SSD as well. I would still be using that Mac, if the keyboard had not started to fail, and my discrete GPU didn't start to also start to fail. Later I replaced the rotational hard disk with an SSD, and that helped a lot. I first upgraded my Mac to 16GB which helped.

A1278 2011 SOFTWARE

I tend to add software to my Macs, and it is possible I had a combination that did not play nice.

Now this could have also been the way I was using my Mac. I found that Lion was not happy with 4GB of RAM for how I was using my Mac. That way you have the option to decide what version you are going to run.

A1278 2011 INSTALL

You can either keep the downloaded Applications -> Install macOS Sierra (or similar name for future releases), save it somewhere else, or delete it and get it again from the App Store -> Purchases tab. When downloading a Major macOS release, as soon as it starts the install, you just "Quit" the installer. In the future, download a copy of each major OS release so that you will then have that version of the OS in your App Store -> Purchases tab, which you will then be allowed to download again in the future. Better to keep the money for a new Mac which will give you all of the hardware upgrades, and more.Īnother way to "Maybe" get Mavericks, Yosemite, or El Capitan is to make a Genius Bar appointment at your local Apple store and ask them to install of of those version (it is best to have a valid reason, such as software compatibility). NOTE: DO NOT spend money on upgrades if the costs are only going to extend the life of this system for a short period of time. That would tell you if you need to add more RAM or if replace the disk with an SSD. If you want to try Sierra, you can backup your system (2 copies with 2 different backup utilities would be even better), then repartition your boot disk to get a 30-50GB partition where you can install Sierra for testing.

A1278 2011 UPGRADE

I have the Late 2011 i7 Macbook Pro and I found that I needed to upgrade my RAM to its max (16GB in my case) and I also needed to replace my rotational disk with an SSD to get good performance when I upgraded to Mavericks and later El Capitan (I'm waiting for a few.