Embarassing question...

[nikkir]

I'm running a 17" Power Book with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. Can I go straight to El Capitan or do i need to upgrade elsewhere first?

thanks for the help!

 

[CoastalOR]

I'm running a 17" Power Book with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. Can I go straight to El Capitan or do i need to upgrade elsewhere first?
thanks for the help!

PowerBooks use PPC processor chips not Intel, so none of them will run El Capitan. In fact, I do not know of any PowerBooks that will even run 10.7.5. OS 10.5.8 was as far as they supported.

Are you sure you have a PowerBook?

EDIT: Assuming you have a Mac laptop that supports El Capitan, then here is a Apple link:
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/

 

[F1Mac]

I'm running a 17" Power Book with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. Can I go straight to El Capitan or do i need to upgrade elsewhere first?

thanks for the help!

You mean a 17" Macbook Pro?

 

[nikkir]

You mean a 17" Macbook Pro?

Yes! Duh. See. I'm the same person that also hasn't ever updated so of course I don't know what I own :-/

 

[KALLT]

No, you can upgrade to El Capitan immediately.