Macbook Pro 17'

[Cosmic182]

Hi guys

I have a really old Macbook Pro 17' running OSX Tiger 10.4.11. How do I go about upgrading it to OSX Mavericks? plan to put some more ram in as its only running 2GB atm. I quite fancy using this laptop just for a bit of downstairs browsing ( have my 2013 iMac for everything else)

Cheers all
I appreciate the help.

 

[InfiniteNoise]

Which year was your MBP made in?

Check the list below to see if you can upgrade.

iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)

To upgrade from App Store, you need to be running 10.6.8 or later, so you can download Mavericks from there, or you can find someone running OS X and create a Mavericks install USB drive that way.

 

[Cosmic182]

Its the Aluminium 2006 I believe? Its ancient and hardly used but its still a good general use laptop...Even if it could be just upgraded to something more recent I'd be grateful.

 

[InfiniteNoise]

That old, huh, you're probably better off running 10.6.8 on it, or maybe 10.7.5.

Do you still want to have OS X on it? You can install Linux on it, probably works better if you're just going to be browsing the net.

 

[Cosmic182]

I'd personally prefer OSX as I know my way around it, no experience with Linux? But it=f its a pain in the butt to upgrade I would try Linux. Is it relatively easy to upgrade to 10.6.8 or 10.7.5? It's just so I can get a few programmes to run on it without it chucking up a sytem software error all the time (out of date software) As I say it is ancient but it's still great for just surfing and the little things.

Thanks

 

[InfiniteNoise]

I'm not sure about 10.6.8 but it's not hard to upgrade to 10.7.5 if you can install Lion from USB drive, upgrade to 4GB RAM if you can, 2GB is usable but slow.

Look up "OS X Lion USB", you'll find plenty of guides telling you how to do it.