Macbook Air 2 1 El Capitan

I have a MacBook Air (MacBookAir3,2) with 2 GB ram and still running Snow Leopard (10.6.8). The App Store offers me to upgrade to El Capitan, so I guess the MacBook Air is still supported. Photo Credit: Apple, Inc. (MacBook Running OS X El Capitan) System Requirements. Apple notes that OS X El Capitan runs on the following Mac categories: iMac (Mid-2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer). Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 DMG Mac. Mac OS El Capitan was released to manufacturing on 20th September 2015, almost three and a half years ago. Its latest version 10.11.6 (15G22010) was released on 9th July 2018, almost 7 months ago. It runs on the platform including x86-64. The Apple MacBook Air 'Core 2 Duo' 1.4 11' (Late 2010) is powered by a 1.4 GHz Intel 'Core 2 Duo' processor (SU9400) with two independent processor 'cores' on a single chip with a 3 MB on-chip shared level 2 cache running on a 800 MHz frontside bus.This system can run the last version of OS X 10.10 'Yosemite' and OS X 10.11 'El Capitan. I have a 320gb hdd with El Capitan already installed on it. The Macbook 2,1 does not read it. When i press OPTION key upon startup there are 2 EFI BOOT options. I've tried both and get the PROHIBITORY SYMBOL.:/ When i tried to run in single user mode it tells me that version of Osx is not.

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Question :

I read somewhere that it is possible to install the latest version of OSX 10.10 Yosemite on my Mac, even though the official installer refuses to install.

Can you give me any directions ?

Answer :

Installing newer versions of OSX on slightly older Macs that do not meet the official system requirements can be done using MacPostFactor (MCPF).

MacPostFactor also supports installing OSX versions up to OSX 10.10 Yosemite on older Macs. And a new version that supports installing OSX 10.11 El_Capitan is in the works.

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For more info (and downloads), go to the info page on MacRumors.com :

Macbook Air 2 1 El Capitan 10.11

Macbook Air 2 1 El Capitan

or see the (less readable) official page of the MacPostFactor team :

…in short :

!!! THIS IS FOR (RATHER) EXPERIENCED MAC-USERS ONLY, AND SHOULD NOT BE DONE ON YOUR ‘ONE AND ONLY’ MAC !!!

!! REMEMBER : DO FOLLOW THE COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE : MacPost Factor info page on MacRumors.com

…that should be it !

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enjoy !

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