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yosemite and my macbook air 1.1

HIKH

HIKH

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Aug 17, 2015
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hello everyone,

I have the very first macbook air with 2GB RAM and 128SSD and it's running osx 10,7,5 lione.

i would like to know the safe way to update it to Yosemite, there is many articles about the way you can do that for unsupported mac but i want to know which one is the safe way for may mac.

also, can you tell me in case if i have yosemite on my mac, it will works perfectly or is there any side effaces or troubleshooting???

to all experts, i can use some help...

thanks...
 
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HIKH said:
hello everyone,

I have the very first macbook air and it's running osx 10,7,5

i would like to know the safe way to update it to Yosemite, there is many articles about the way you can do that for unsupported mac but i want to know which one is the safe way for may mac.

also, can you tell me in case if i have yosemite on my mac, it will works perfectly or is there any side effaces or troubleshooting???

thanks...
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What are your computer specs?(Memory, Storage, Processor...)
 
Lion (10.7.5) is your max - the newest system that you can use on a MBAir1,1
It's because of the video card (GMA 3100) that your MBAir uses. It can't be used with anything past Lion.
Not every Mac can be upgraded. There are some old models than can, but you have to do other tricks, such as upgrading your graphics card in an old MacPro. You can't upgrade the graphics card in the Air, unfortunately.
Bottom line - the tricks to get a newer OS X installed won't work on your MBAir.
 
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HIKH said:
2gb ram of memory, 128ssd off hard drive...
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redheeler said:
Lion is officially the max for the 1,1. It might be possible to install Mountain Lion (anything afterward would break graphics acceleration and make for a very unpleasant experience): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-success-install-10-8-on-old-unsupported-mac.1325709/

Because of the 9400M dGPU and 64-bit EFI, the MacBook Air 2,1 (late 2008) has been a lot more fortunate with OS support compared to the original 1,1.
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Also, you could never run Yosemite on 2GB of Memory
 
!!! said:
Also, you could never run Yosemite on 2GB of Memory
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I must disagree with this. The late 2008 MacBook Air 2,1 also has 2 GB RAM, and it actually runs Yosemite 10.10.3 and later surprisingly well doing light tasks. As long as expectations are kept reasonable, Yosemite will be usable on 2 GB.
 
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