Don’t. Do it.

If you have an older macbook pro. Don’t. Download. I don’t care what everyone said before me. look closer at their reviews. If they mention they had to install more ram THAT SHOULD BE A RED FLAG. This download ruined my life. I’m a college student and my laptop is everything. I chose mac because theyre reliable, fast, efficient, durable machines. Apple makes some of the best products in the world. But just how updating an iphone 4 to iOS 7 was a mistake, updating your older mac to el capitan is as well. From the day I made the switch to el capitan my computer has run at half the speed in literally every application. AND I WISH this was all that happened. The upgraded notes app takes about 5-10 minutes to open. iPhoto literally just doesnt work anymore. The wheel of death pops up ANY TIME I CLICK ANYTHING. Safari uses about a gig of ram when its left open. The new garadgeband is nice but im pretty sure you can get it without the update. Please god I KNOW you want to believe this wont happen to you TRUST ME i read ALL the same reviews before updating. But it will. It will happen to you and it will ruin your life. I have used mac for 5 years and I love them. I love apple. but Apple? screw you for this. My 1,200 dollar machine is useless. I, like you the reader, so desperetly wanted El Capitan to be amazing, and I’m sure it works AMAZING on apple’s new line of MacBooks. But it simply. doesnt. work. on the older models. If one person reads this and decides not to download than I will have succeded. Please. For yourself. For me. For humanity. Do not download El Capitan.

wgrennan about OS X El Capitan