With the release of Mac 10.11 El Captain, Mac X achieves the highest standard of performance for an OS to date. With support for legacy systems, 10.11 intelligently manage systems resources to their maximum performance capability. You might not notice the difference between 2009 Mac Mini Machine vs a 2015 Mac Book Pro Retina in day-to-day activities.
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Jun 27, 2019 El Capitan was only ever available as a free download direct from Apple, if you are buying it or any 'recovery' DVD you are being ripped off. To download El Capitan, read this, How to upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support scroll down to Section 4 and click on Get El Capitan. Select the location of Mac OS 10.11 image file, that you have downloaded previously. It is not necessary to expand the drive, with Mac OS, 40GB is enough to install iOS programming tools. Here I expand to 100GB.
If you are starting fresh, you can install 10.11 El Captain on most new Mac’s right off the bat. Follow our guide to learn how.
Easy Way
Download and install Disk Maker X
Download Mac X 10.11 El Captain from the Mac Store. It will save inside your applications folder.
Insert a USB drive that is formatted for Mac. It will be erased. It must be at least 8g minimum in size.
Open DiskMaker X and follow the onscreen instructions
Chose El Captain 10.11
It should find the copy of 10.11 El Captain in your Applications folder
Select your Jump Drive
Confirm the jump drive will be erased
Files start copying. This could take up to an hour.
Your USB Jump Drive will auto-mount after the copy. You will be ready to boot from the drive at this point
Insert the USB into a Mac. Boot up the machine while holding option key. You will be prompted to select the USB drive to boot from. Follow the on screen instructions for installing Mac 10.11.
Technical Way
Grab a USB drive that is at least 8gb in size.
Download Mac X 10.11 El Captain from the Mac Store. It will save inside your applications folder.
Rename the USB Drive to MacXcaptain on your mac.
Launch Mac X Terminal located in Applications -> Utilities
Copy and paste the follow command into Terminal (Exactly as is)
sudo /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/ElCapInstaller --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app –nointeraction
You will see progress of the copy in Terminal below
Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%… 20%… 30%…100%…
Copying installer files to disk…
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Copy complete.
Making disk bootable…
Copying boot files…
Copy complete.
Done.
You now have a bootable USB drive with Mac X 10.11 El Captain.
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Insert the USB into a Mac. Boot up the machine while holding option key. You will be prompted to select the USB drive to boot from. Follow the on screen instructions for installing Mac 10.11.
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To get the latest features and maintain the security, stability, compatibility, and performance of your Mac, it's important to keep your software up to date. Apple recommends that you always use the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac.
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Learn how to upgrade to macOS Big Sur, the latest version of macOS.
Check compatibility
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The version of macOS that came with your Mac is the earliest version it can use. For example, if your Mac came with macOS Big Sur, it will not accept installation of macOS Catalina or earlier.
If a macOS can't be used on your Mac, the App Store or installer will let you know. For example, it might say that it's not compatible with this device or is too old to be opened on this version of macOS. To confirm compatibility before downloading, check the minimum hardware requirements:
- macOS Catalina 10.15 hardware requirements
- macOS Mojave 10.14 hardware requirements
- macOS High Sierra 10.13 hardware requirements
- macOS Sierra 10.12 hardware requirements
- OS X El Capitan 10.11 hardware requirements
- OS X Yosemite 10.10 hardware requirements
Download macOS using Safari on your Mac
Safari uses these links to find the old installers in the App Store. After downloading from the App Store, the installer opens automatically.
- macOS Catalina 10.15 can upgrade Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
- macOS Mojave 10.14 can upgrade High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion
- macOS High Sierra 10.13 can upgrade Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion
Safari downloads the following older installers as a disk image named InstallOS.dmg or InstallMacOSX.dmg. Open the disk image, then open the .pkg installer inside the disk image. It installs an app named Install [Version Name]. Open that app from your Applications folder to begin installing the operating system.
- macOS Sierra 10.12 can upgrade El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion
- OS X El Capitan 10.11 can upgrade Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard
- OS X Yosemite 10.10can upgrade Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard