MacBook Pro backwards compatible?
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- tap
Anyone know if it's possible to run OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) on a new 2019 MacBook Pro?
I've been out of the loop for awhile and still run the Adobe CS5 suite off my almost 10 year old MacBook...
- colin_s1
i don't think so. (i haven't updated anything in years because i still use CS5 as well so let me know if it works because i'll be needing a new laptop soon, even though i'm pretty convinced on going back to windows.)
- It'll still be awhile before I can afford one of the new MacBook Pro laptops... but I'll try to see if it will work. If not, I'll keep the old one around.tap
- tap0
It's worth a try
- monospaced0
Could you run it virtually perhaps? I think that’s a thing people use it for.
- grafician0
Might be if you erase the latest Mac OS when you buy the macbook pro, then create a bootable flash drive, then install from that, but I don't think Apple still has support online of El Capitan aka you can't download it anymore :/
This might help: https://discussions.apple.com/th…
- grafician1
But much easier would be to just run the latest Mac OS, then just do a virtual machine and install El capitan in that, the run install Adobe CS5 and run it from the virtual machine...
But why go to all this trouble when you can just get a Adobe CC license or use Affinity for most projects...
- evilpeacock1
The best way to run legacy software with peace-of-mind — pretty much forever — is virtualization. Set it up once and just move it as you upgrade to new machines. My fav is VMWare Fusion which is totally affordable and allows virtualizing Snow Leopard on up. It's upgraded annually but you don't always need to stay current.
Virtualization can be taken to "Inception level" extremes; If you virtualize Snow Leopard Server you can also run PPC and even OS9 software — SL Server is the last MacOS version that had built-in emulation for PPC and below.
For years I've kept a virtual machine around with old versions of Adobe, Freehand, etc. for converting old formats back-and-forth.
- i like the sound of that - i have an old g4 running os9 for fontographer, and snow leopard / cs3 is unbeatablehans_glib
- mekk0
afaik you can't downgrade macs but you could try wiping it and install the OS from a backup using a backup of your current machine running on El Capitan.
May I ask why you want such a dated OS?
- ernexbcn0
I run 5.1 on high sierra, version 5 does not work at all?
- ernexbcn0
@tap give this a shot if this is the issue
- Ianbolton0
How about OS 9?