SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•questions about upgrading an OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 on a MacBook Pro, model A1502 (EMC 2875), mid 2014
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4 months agoIt will run macOS 11 Big Sur, which isn’t fully out of date yet.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 “How to download and install macOS”
You will want to install via USB probably. See "use a bootable installer " on the link above.
I would wipe/install.
I am all in favour of being frugal and shopping by price, but you are missing some of the value proposition when you talk about local stores.
In theory, what you are getting when you buy from a local store is the entire brick and mortar experience. This includes a knowledgable sales person who can talk to you and answer a bunch of questions and give you perspective, maybe even an expert opinion. You get hands on service for things like wrapping or solving problems or putting stuff on hold. If it’s a bookstore, you get to browse and pull things off the shelf and look through them and touch the books . If it is a clothing store, you get to try things on.
Go ahead and shop online, but at some point, you will run into a wall where having an actual physical experience, with all of the building overhead and staffing, is really what you needed, but it doesn’t exist anymore because everybody bought from Jeff Bezos.
So part of the value proposition is a bit like tax. You invest in your community so that your community doesn’t suck. You get value out of it in that you get to live in a place that sucks less than a place that was sucked dry by Walmart.