How to #Upgrade your #MacBook's #macOS from #SnowLeopard to #ElCapitan in #30mins

 

Upgrading macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard to El Capitan 10.11. As an initial step for upgrading older OS to macOS Sierra. If you want to dust off your old MacBook, this is the life saver step or you might earn a better price if you do this before re-selling it.

Note: Before you proceed with this OS upgrade backup is definitely recommended as incase of system crash or upgrade failure you would need to revert to clean install or system restore. You can buy an external hdd drive and use time machine to backup your files. Time machine is a great tool available in macOS for easily backing up and restoring of your files using an external hard drive.

What is Snow Leopard ? 

It's not slow leopard. lol !!.. Around Seven years back Apple named one of its major release of Mac OS X as Snow Leopard.

Why to Upgrade your macOS? 

Upgrade to the latest version of macOS will provide you the strongest security and latest features.

App store URL to get El Capitan - https://apps.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835434?ls=1&mt=12

Visit the Apple Support URL below for further details about Upgrading your OS X El Capitan. https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT206886

Below is the list of devices supported for this upgrade:

• MacBook introduced in early 2009 or later, plus MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
• MacBook Air introduced in late 2008 or later
• MacBook Pro introduced in mid 2007 or later
• Mac mini introduced in early 2009 or later
• iMac introduced in mid 2007 or later
• Mac Pro introduced in early 2008 or later
• Xserve models introduced in early 2009

Here is the video capturing the complete upgrade process.

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In case you are unable to login to Apple Store for any reason you may consider buying a bootable USB disk from here.

Pros & Cons of use of Adobe Flex for iPhone/iPad Developers

Below are the pros and cons of Adobe Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html) environment for iOS development.

Pros:
1. No specific Hardware need: No need for Mac OS X system for development ( works on both platforms Mac & Windows).
2. Code sharing across multiple platforms: Run the same code on other mobile platforms (BlackBerry Playbook and Android), desktops & web applications (browsers)
3. SAP Data Integration: Ease of integration with SAP backend & Web Services (or to other standard data sources)
4. Improvement Developer Productivity (Adobe Flex / ActionScript would be easier to learn for a Java developer than Objective C).
5. Design Time Integration: Eclipse based developer (Flash Builder) environment or developer tools can be integrated with SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.
6. Low Training Cost, there are plenty of examples and development tutorials available for free to get started with Adobe Flex. 
7. SAP NetWeaver GateWay Integration: https://community.wdf.sap.corp/sbs/groups/adobe-flex/blog/2011/09/02/flash-builder-and-sap-netweaver-gateway-integration
Cons:
1. Dependency on Flash Platform.
2. Licensing Cost of Software:  Cost of Development tool, Adobe Flash Builder Premium license costs $699. (on single license purchase, there may be discounted price for bulk purchase)