Using El Captain on todays web ?

[oldhifi]

Can you use EL Captain on todays web, such as watching you tube, Netflix, Amazon Prime? I know my iMac with Lion was very limited?

 

[elf69]

yes my main home machine is a 2007 iMac running el cap as cannot natively run Sierra/ High Sierra.

no issues at all use it every day after work and at weekends.

mainly on youtube streaming festivals and facebook.

also play blitz world of tanks sometimes.

 

[Fishrrman]

Sure, why not?
I use it and things run well enough for me.

 

[TC_GoldRush]

I use Mavericks on my iMac and mostly everything still works fine (except for anydesk for some reason), you'll be fine on El Captain!

 

[b0fh666]

was using it for 'production' until last week in one of my machines. works well.

 

[Budiosx]

Can you use EL Captain on todays web, such as watching you tube, Netflix, Amazon Prime? I know my iMac with Lion was very limited?

el capitan is faster than high sierra in every thing

 

[elf69]

I found my 2010 MacBook faster on Sierra than El cap.

 

[oldhifi]

What year or model I should buy 2010 or 2011? I read the 2011 had Logic board troubles?

 

[Fishrrman]

You would want to avoid 2011 MacBook Pro 15" and 17" models, because of "RadeonGate" ...

 

[Eithanius]

You would want to avoid 2011 MacBook Pro 15" and 17" models, because of "RadeonGate" ...

2010 ain't good either... mine started dying after 4 years of use...

 

[oldhifi]

I found a nice 2010 model with High Sierra, hopefully it will do want I want

 

[elf69]

I have a 2007 20" iMac myself

it does all I want.
But I am going to upgrade a few bits so it will run high Sierra.

these old iMac I feel are quite under rated machines.
Bought a 2008 for a friend who is in love, it's also his first ever Mac!

 

[oldhifi]

I have a 2007 20" iMac myself

it does all I want.
But I am going to upgrade a few bits so it will run high Sierra.

these old iMac I feel are quite under rated machines.
Bought a 2008 for a friend who is in love, it's also his first ever Mac!

I thought the highest OS was El Captain?

 

[elf69]

native yes but with right cpu (some are ok out box, other need upgrade) and patcher it runs fine.

I patched a friends 2008 iMac and he loves Sierra.

just need swap out wifi card as original not Sierra compatible.
I have a 2.0GHz which is not compatible, I bought a 2.8GHz to upgrade it (CPU not soldered)

I also maxed out to 6GB ram, SSD and CPU upgrade soon.

 

[hesatter]

Yes,

El Captain will be fine loading today's websites you typically visit.

 

[oldhifi]

I reloaded El Captain on my MBP, it seems to work pretty good, better than High Sierra

 

[Anderton]

There are no issues as long the software (browsers etc) and are supported, which they will be for a quite long time.

 

[iPodClassic1]

el capitan is faster than high sierra in every thing

I vouch for this. I'm using El Cap on an early 2016 and works perfectly. Most Sierras seem buggy and maybe too heavy for Macbooks?