How to upgrade Mac OS X from 10.6.8 to 10.9?

Question

I read the following informations from the apple discussion:

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, breaks the tradition, and is available free (subject certain license restrictions) for anyone from 10.6.8 through 10.8.5 as long as they meet the system requirements for 10.8

I have Mac with OS 10.6.8 and I want to upgrade my OS to 10.9. and according to above information this is possible. But I do not how to do that with my Mac.

Could you tell me how to upgrade my Mac OS X from 10.6.8 to 10.9?

Solution

From your error message it sounds as if you have older hardware.

Check Mavericks hardware requirements http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5842

compatible models:

• iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
• MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

Comments

[Darius]

Apple Store, and choose Mavericks?

[HikeMike]

apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade You can probably just click on 'Upgrade Now' at the top right.

[Mohamed KALLEL]

I get error "we could not complete your purchase, OS Marvix could not be installed on this computer" and the learn more button show this web page: support.apple.com/kb/HT5842

[Mohamed KALLEL]

seems to be hardware problem because I have macbook 2007