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Macbook Pro 15" 2010 (No upgrades) to El Capitan?

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  • 18-05-2016 3:40pm
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    deadanonymau5
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    Hi all

    Ive a Macbook Pro 15" 2010 (No upgrades) and was debating whether to upgrade to El Capitan. Did anyone here upgrade an old MBP to El Capitan?

    One of my friends upgraded their Macbook Pro, slightly newer than mine and they said it bricked their Macbook, so Im concerned it'll mess mine up. Do you think I should upgrade?

    Also, my batteries condition is replace soon and I hear a clicking noise sometimes, probably my hard drive.

    Thanks
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    Sad Professor
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    Backup using Time Machine first and you'll be fine. I run El Capitan on a 2009 MBP, no problems.

    I find it unlikely that it bricked your friend's machine. Probably it just died due to a hardware fault and it was coincidence. Or it didn't brick it, it just caused problems that could have been resolved by doing a clean install.

    But if your hard drive is making loud clicking noises I wouldn't go upgrading or doing anything except backing up immediately. Is it the same hard drive that came in the machine? Because I read HDDs their last rites after 3 years.


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    deadanonymau5
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Backup using Time Machine first and you'll be fine. I run El Capitan on a 2009 MBP, no problems.

    I find it unlikely that it bricked your friend's machine. Probably it just died due to a hardware fault and it was coincidence. Or it didn't brick it, it just caused problems that could have been resolved by doing a clean install.

    But if your hard drive is making loud clicking noises I wouldn't go upgrading or doing anything except backing up immediately. Is it the same hard drive that came in the machine? Because I read HDDs their last rites after 3 years.

    Thanks. The clicking is very sporadic. Not very loud when it does it.

    Yeah, its the hard drive that came with it. I wouldn't be comfortable doing anything myself to it, no matter how small.


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    deadanonymau5
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Backup using Time Machine first and you'll be fine. I run El Capitan on a 2009 MBP, no problems.

    If I buy a portable 2tb hard drive, can I backup to it and still use the remaining memory on it like a normal external hard drive?


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    Sad Professor
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    deadanonymau5 wrote: »
    If I buy a portable 2tb hard drive, can I backup to it and still use the remaining memory on it like a normal external hard drive?

    Sure, that's what I do.


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    deadanonymau5
    Registered Users Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭deadanonymau5


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Sure, that's what I do.

    Great. Thanks. I think Ill go for it.
    :D
    Sick of the look of Mavericks 10.9.5.


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    Axlan
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    El Capitan will struggle on an old MacBook Pro with less than 8GB Ram.


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    deadanonymau5
    Registered Users Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭deadanonymau5


    I updated and happy to have the new UI and features. Glad to see Whatsapp actually works now!


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