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MBA 11 Ultimate with Yosemite - Does it work ok

Wicked1

Wicked1

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looking at either 11 or 13" MBA but thinking of getting a refurb Ultimate with 8GB/512GB but how do they work with Yosemite, as Apple loads this on all their new Macs?

I am on a 2012 MBP 13" 2.5 4GB/240GB SSD with Lion
 
Wicked1 said:
looking at either 11 or 13" MBA but thinking of getting a refurb Ultimate with 8GB/512GB but how do they work with Yosemite, as Apple loads this on all their new Macs?

I am on a 2012 MBP 13" 2.5 4GB/240GB SSD with Lion
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What is an Ultimate?
 
I think he's asking how well a refurb 2013 i7/8gb/512gb MBA works under Yosemite, since it originally shipped with Mountain Lion. The i7 MBA hardware was not updated in 2014.

I have a 2013 11" i7/8gb/512gb and am still running Mountain Lion. I have a lot of old software and upgrades always break something.
 
Boyd01 said:
I think he's asking how well a refurb 2013 i7/8gb/512gb MBA works under Yosemite, since it originally shipped with Mountain Lion. Or maybe a 2014 MBA, which originally shipped with Mavericks (although the hardware is the same as the 2013 i7 model).

I have a 2013 11" i7/8gb/512gb and am still running Mountain Lion. I have a lot of old software and upgrades always break something.
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The specs have nothing to do with how Yosemite runs.
From my experience it runs fine on mac mini (2012), rmbp (2013), mba (2013).
I agree that there is no need to upgrade if everything works fine.
 
Essentially why I was asking, do not like Yosemite, and have some older apps, really wanted an Ultimate MBA but do not want to give up on MLion
 
Wicked1 said:
Essentially why I was asking, do not like Yosemite, and have some older apps, really wanted an Ultimate MBA but do not want to give up on MLion
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Then run Mountain Lion on it.
Whatever makes you happy ;)
 
Meister said:
Yes, you can.
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Ok, so the Restore Key I made for my 2012 13" MBP will work to let me restore an 11" MBA to ML? If not how is that done, I have not upgraded from ML on my 13" MBP since I am not sure how you can go back?
 
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