MacBook (Early 2015 or newer) MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer) MacBook Pro with Retina display (Mid 2012 or newer) Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer) iMac (Late 2012 or newer) iMac Pro (2017) Mac Pro (Late 2013 or newer) Boot Camp. Allows Boot Camp installations of Windows 10 on supported Mac models. Exchange Support. Oct 26, 2017 MacOS Sierra runs great on my 2011 iMac, better than you'd expect for a 6-year-old Mac; but I have installed an SSD. On the original spinning hard drive, the latest MacOS will run but performance does suffer, and the same is true even for brand new Macs that don't have an SSD. The current situation is this: I have wiped my Macbook Air 2011, and get to the Mac OS X Utilities page after booting, with four options: Restore from Time Machine backup Reinstall Mac OS X Get Help Online Disk Utility. As I want a fresh install, I go to Resintall Mac OS X. Feb 08, 2012 MacBook Air (mid 2011) 11.6': 1.6 GHz (i5-2467M) dual-core Intel Core i5, 4 GB Ram, 128 GB SSD, Mac OS X 10.7.3 MacBook (late 2009) 13.3': 2.26.
If you try to start up your Mac from a hard disk, network volume, or Time Machine backup that contains an incompatible version or build of macOS, you might experience one or more of these symptoms:
- Your Mac doesn't finish starting up, or displays a prohibitory symbol at startup.
- You see a message that you're using an unsupported or incorrect version of the Mac operating system.
- Your Mac doesn't respond to your trackpad, mouse, or keyboard.
- Apps unexpectedly quit.
- Your Mac doesn't sleep or wake.
- You don't hear any sound from your Mac.
- The fans in your Mac are louder, because they're spinning faster.
- The image on your display appears to shrink, has black bars around it, or appears tinted.
- You can't use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
Which Mac operating systems are compatible?
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The version of macOS that came with your Mac is the earliest version compatible with that Mac. To find out whether your Mac is compatible with a later version of macOS, check the system requirements:
If your Mac won't start up from a compatible version of macOS, it might require a specific build of that version. To get the correct build, reinstall macOS or upgrade to a later version of macOS.
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- To restore a Time Machine backup that was created on a different Mac, use Migration Assistant.