Minimum System Requirements for macOS Catalina 10.15 – Is yours good enough?
Find out if your Apple computer meets the minimum system requirements of the new macOS Catalina 10.15.
Apple have released their operating system named macOS Catalina October 2019, which will be macOS 10.15. The name Catalina continues on with their California landmarks with the names after Santa Catalina Island in California it is the successor to macOS Mojave.
For this upgrade fortunately it will run on all Apple mac machines that already could run macOS Mojave.
You’ll still require a 64bit Intel processor, Iris Graphics 4000 series or later and 8GBs of free disk space – if upgrading, as appose to clean install min plus at least 4GB of RAM .
The Macs that will run macOS Catalina
- iMac – all models from late 2012, iMac 13,1 – 18,3
- iMac Pro – all models, iMac Pro 1,1
- MacBook & MacBook Retina – all models from late 2009, MacBook 8,1 – 10,1
- MacBook Pro – all models from 2012, MacBook Pro 9,2 – 15,1
- MacBookAir – all models from 2012, MacBook Air 5,1 – 7,2
- Mac Mini – all models from 2012, Mac Mini 6,1 – 7,1
- Mac Pro – all models from 2012, Mac Pro 6,1 and from 2010-2012 Mac Pro 5,1 models with recommended Metal-capable GPU
Which means most devices made prior to 2008 won’t be able to run it.
The Macs that won’t run macOS Catalina…
– macOS Catalina won’t run on –
- iMac 4,1 – 12,1
- MacBook 1,1 – 7,1
- MacBook Pro 1,1 – 8,3
- MacBookAir 1,1 – 4,2
- Mac Mini 1,1 – 5,3
- Mac Pro 1,1 – 4,1
- Xserve 1,1 – 3,1
How you find your Mac Model Number
>Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info … > System Report … Model Identifier
Or for you terminal freaks…
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType
