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    Do I need to buy Snow Leopard to upgrade to El Capitan?

    Hi All, I have been given a 2008 iMac. The OS it came with is 10.5 Leopard. This mac can run El Capitan but do I need to buy a Snow Leopard licence before I upgrade to El Capitan? I know that with the later Macs you can simply upgrade for free but not sure about the older operating systems...
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    Resolved It's time for Apple to rethink licensing Mac OS

    Before reading on, understand that this is coming from the perspective of a pro user. Someone who relies on a Mac to get work done. Also, someone who has been using Macs since the mid 90's. OK, read on. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, one of the first things he did was kill the Apple...
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    • Forum: macOS
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