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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?
Date: 5 Apr 2015 17:22:28 GMT
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On 2015-04-05, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
> My (used) iMac came with Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Coming from the Linux & 
> Windows world, I've been very hesitant to upgrade the system... especially 
> since what I already have *WORKS*.
>
> But now, there is a program that I want, which says that it needs at least 
> Lion (and recommends Mountain Lion or newer). So, with the store offering the 
> free upgrade to Yosemite, I'm strongly considering going through with it.
>
> But... I'm a bit leery of doing it unprepared. Are there any risks or gotchas 
> I need to be aware of, big or small?

One thing I haven't seen mentioned (maybe I missed it) is you need to be
sure you have at *least* 4 GB of RAM installed in the machine to run
Yosemite well - and 8 GB of RAM would be much better, especially if you
plan to run many apps at once. 

> (None of the app-specific things I found on the "how to upgrade" page 
><https://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/> apply to me, for one reason or 
> another.)

Roaring Apps has a compatibility database you can use to see which apps
of yours are compatible (or not) with Yosemite:

<http://roaringapps.com>

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