But once High Sierra was available, I jumped at the chance of getting High Sierra installed on them. For two of those machines they only support up to El Capitan officially so I never bothered with trying to get Sierra on them. I currently have 5 machines on High Sierra. Safari 11 gets some nice upgrades as well, although I believe both Sierra and El Capitan get those benefits too, since they can also run Safari 11. None of this natively possible on any version of macOS prior to High Sierra, yet these formats are the norm now with some iOS 11 iPhones.

Now, a 2011 MacBook Pro isn't going to be able to play 4K HEVC of any sort well, but it will be able to play 1080p HEVC just fine, and HEIF Live Photos too, and of course it will be able do display HEIF still photos. The format support alone is worth it, because no OS before High Sierra can natively understand HEVC or HEIF/HEIC. This is one of the most important OS upgrades in years, and it runs fine as long as you have 8 GB RAM and SSD. Metal 2 (although this does not apply to 2011 Macs) HEIF <- This is essential if you have a recent iPhone and want to save space Intel i9 10885H / 32GB RAM / 512GB SSD / RTX 3000 6GB / 15.HEVC <- This is essential if you have a recent iPhone and want to save space There's also an empty 2280 M.2 slot and the bracket can support a second 2.5' SSD.Ĭan add a WiFi 6 card for $20 bucks, or another SSD (M.2 or 2.5') of varying capacity. I5 6500 / 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD - HDD to SSD Bracket / Win10 Enterprise LTSC Drive is detected and accessible but no OS is installed.īooted into recovery mode and set time to communicate with Apple servers, was not able to install OSX Lion due to not owning it on my account (Thanks Apple).ĭue to reasons 1 and 2 above, labeling this item as 'For Parts'. SSD has broken SATA Power connector plastic, this has been taped down and double sided taped into the chassis. Original HDD was not included, replacement SSD was used, no OS installed. Optional free Micro SD expansion adapter. Original box and charger will be included.

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