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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by hanniabu on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:40AM (#22221957)
I also have a 2011 and still running El Capitan because I was concerned about how it would handle updates. What version are you running right now and how much RAM do you have?
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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by cglong on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:54AM (#22222271)
I have a 2011 iMac that's running High Sierra (its last supported release). I upgraded it from its base 4GB to 20GB of RAM.

Since getting High Sierra, everything's been really smooth, but the Sierra -> High Sierra upgrade actually bricked my computer. It was perpetually stuck in the installation phase, bailing after 45 minutes because it couldn't unmount my partition. To Apple's credit though, after I used recovery mode to reinstall the OS, everything worked and my data was intact.

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