#Macos high sierra for mac 2008 install
#Macos high sierra for mac 2008 upgrade
#Macos high sierra for mac 2008 pro

People sometimes buy вЂњthe good oneвЂќ as an upgrade part: one that was an option for the unit at time of sale - an expensive custom part - an after the fact upgrade for an aging machine. Then I come over to your house and open a box from apple with a service part inside, and put the exact same one in and itвЂ™s working again. It sits there and works until the unit dies. They have no upgrade path because the GPU is not some component for you to upgrade (to apple, in an iMac), it is a part of the unit, like your liver. My 2013 27вЂќ doesnвЂ™t have a daughter card - itвЂ™s part of the main logic board. Or the GPU is soldered in place and there is no daughtercard. But the daughter cards for the next generation are different. They buy the GPU chips and make custom apple daughter cards with low-profile interfaces and zero output ports. There has never been a non-tower Mac with a regular PCI slot (well, the PowerMac G4 Cube, and I spent 8 months trying to jam a new card In one - it is still in my garage). They are custom main boards (GPU left, CPU right) with custom daughter-cards with custom pinouts. They have so many custom parts and connectors that the turbo you bought down at the NAPA canвЂ™t bolt on because it uses a weird bracket system, and canвЂ™t replace the special odd-shaped turbo that is custom-made to fit in an odd space near an engine mount.

They are like German cars: Fancy, overengineered, and made to do their job in an elegant way. Macs - especially non-tower macs - are extremely limited in what you can do to them beyond Memory and storage by design. You are not going to change the GPU to something apple didnвЂ™t make for that model type back in 2011 (Mid 2011, 21вЂќ) IMacs are giant iPads with some room for some SATA devices inside. But if you were gonna put Linux on it, you didnвЂ™t need them anyways. If you need the newest iMovie, air drop, or interact with a lot of iOS features that you need parity with, well then, no. If you are in such a situation, these machines would be useful. I have a MacBook 2008 Main Logic Board in a plastic box with an 8TB hard drive as a Plex server running Mavericks - Plex works great on a CPU hobbled old relic that is headless hiding in a cupboard. There are some вЂњmodernвЂќ apps that run on them: They both still run the latest versions of Chrome & Diablo 3, for example. They still run Aperture (their main job) and other old versions I donвЂ™t mind because those devices do not interact in anyone elseвЂ™s work flow. I watch YouTube, buy stuff on Amazon, and map in OpenStreetMap.

#Macos high sierra for mac 2008 pro

It is interesting - I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max that is effectively my вЂњmainвЂќ computer now, and two computers that handle infrequent media creation, storage, and some media consumption.

#Macos high sierra for mac 2008 install

I visit I a limited number of websites, and rarely install apps, so these limitations are not an issue. My main machine is an iMac from 20 and both run High Sierra.