On the phone Apple tells me they can upgrade me from 10.6.8 to El Cap for free. I spent 4 hours at the local Apple store on one occasion and 5 hours the second time. No one at the Genius Bar could get the job done. So I phone Apple again and speak to a senior advisor. He is confident it will work and proposes to do it over the internet. While El Cap is being downloaded he asks if I can call again once the D/L is complete. That way he doesn't have to stay on the line 30 minutes. I agree. When I call back later another SA tells me that that my Intel Core 2 Duo cannot be upgraded beyond Lion. Has anyone successfully installed an OSX beyond Lion on a 2006 MBP?
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MBP 2,1 from 2006/07
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I’m very surprised that anyone from Apple would even try and do it. Isn’t your machine unsupported for El Capitan?
Apple won’t help you install El Capitan on that unless it’s a late 2007 17” I believe. There are third party tools like MacPostFactor that I’ve had no success with. I stick with MLPostFactor personally.
Pretty sad in terms of service from Apple. The first 5 'experts' tell me they can upgrade me to El Cap, including a Senior Advisor. It's only the 6th expert I speak to who gives me bad, but accurate news.
It's not that reasonable to expect Apple support to be supporting an upgrade on a 12-14 year old computer. Why even waste the effort to suddenly upgrade now when it wasn't important all those prior years?
Try even getting a response at all from another manufacturer about their 2006 product. 14 years is a long time in computer years.
Honestly tho if you don't have another computer, you can score a comparably cutting edge Late 2013 15" for like $600 on eBay that will run all the latest OSes and keep up with the newest machines for everyday tasks.