OSX Upgrade Help - 10.10 to 10.11

[drummingcraig]

I am beyond frustrated so apologies if I am missing an obvious and/or previously posted solution here. I have searched here and elsewhere and feel like I am going in circles, so please refrain from any flaming.

I have a mid-2008 MBP (5,1) which is currently running Yosemite. I need to upgrade to El Capitan so that I can sync my iOS12 devices again. I also have some issues with the primary hard drive in it (long story) so I am installing an SSD drive in the optical bay and would like to perform a clean install of 10.11 on it, making it the boot drive.

1) Everything I have read says that my hardware will not work with anything more recent that 10.11. Is this true?

2) Where can I download a copy of 10.11 so that I can create a usb install drive?

3) If there are any better OSoptions that will allow me to run an iOS12 compatible version of iTunes I am all ears!

Yours in frustration,

Craig

 

[chrfr]

I am beyond frustrated so apologies if I am missing an obvious and/or previously posted solution here. I have searched here and elsewhere and feel like I am going in circles, so please refrain from any flaming.

I have a mid-2008 MBP (5,1) which is currently running Yosemite. I need to upgrade to El Capitan so that I can sync my iOS12 devices again. I also have some issues with the primary hard drive in it (long story) so I am installing an SSD drive in the optical bay and would like to perform a clean install of 10.11 on it, making it the boot drive.

1) Everything I have read says that my hardware will not work with anything more recent that 10.11. Is this true?

2) Where can I download a copy of 10.11 so that I can create a usb install drive?

3) If there are any better OSoptions that will allow me to run an iOS12 compatible version of iTunes I am all ears!

Yours in frustration,

Craig

I googled for "Download El Capitan" and the first result that came back was this page which contains all the details you need: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886

 

[CoastalOR]

I have a mid-2008 MBP (5,1) which is currently running Yosemite. I need to upgrade to El Capitan so that I can sync my iOS12 devices again. I also have some issues with the primary hard drive in it (long story) so I am installing an SSD drive in the optical bay and would like to perform a clean install of 10.11 on it, making it the boot drive.
1) Everything I have read says that my hardware will not work with anything more recent that 10.11. Is this true?

You are correct. The maximum Apple supported OS for your MBP is El Capitan (10.11.6).