If you were a Mac buyer in 2012 or 2013 and haven't updated its operating system since then, chances are you're using MacOS 10.8 Mountain Lion. It's a less active version, so our recommendation is to update MacOS Catalina as soon as possible to avoid having other websites ask you to update browsers and they won't.
And yes, at the hardware level you have no problems: all 2012 Macs can run MacOS Catalina without any problems. I'm personally writing this article from my iMac at the end of 2012 and using the latest version of the program seems to be nothing. The problem comes when trying to update from MacOS 10.8 Mountain Lion to MacOS 10.15 Catalina from Mac App Store … and this tells you to update to Catalina you need to install at least MacOS 10,9 Maverick that you can no longer download.
Moderate & # 39; Update & # 39; to have macOS Catalina
As Apple demands (and rightly so) that you always use the latest version of macOS, the Mac App Store lets you download models before Catalina. But if you need to have MacOS 10,9 to be able to update, even if your Mac is compatible, you seem to be stuck with MacOS 10,8, don't you? Yes, but luckily Apple does an opportunity for equitable renewal.
Apple allows us to download the MacOS El Capitan installer in this section of her support website, which we can use as a central step of the update to macOS Catalina. That is, we will upgrade from macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion to macOS 10,10 El Capitán, and from there we can easily update to macOS Catalina from the Mac App store.
MacOS 10.10 El Capitan downloads as a .dmg file and as an installer. It looks ridiculous, but you have to "install" MacOS 10,10 El Capitan installation on our computer. When done, will appear an icon named & # 39; Install OS X El Capitán & # 39; in the Mac Applications folder. If you open it and follow the instructions, you can easily install that version of macOS.
As always, before making this update you must back up all your data, so that you don't regret your loss in case the update failed. Another recommendation is to stay tuned and get ready for MacOS El Capitan: take the opportunity and upgrade twice to macOS Catalina to avoid authentication and security issues in the future.
By the way, you can't use this MacOS El Capitan installer to install it on a computer that already has the most recent version of the program. Apple records which computers run the latest types of macOS as well does not allow bring it down. Also, it is always recommended to have the latest version of macOS to reduce inactivity and security risks.
