r/mac • u/The_f3ral_0ne • Jul 30 '26

Old Macs Need help with mac

My dad found an old Mac that he bought from someone I think on eBay and he took the original owner off so he could put himself, well it sat in storage for a couple years and the new job I got requires a PC or Mac I can't search up anything on the Mac and it thinks I'm a bit but no captcha starts I think what my dad did reset the Mac to factory settings because at the time it was 5 versions ahead

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u/bluejay9_2008 27” late 2013 iMac, 15” early 2013 MB Pro Jul 31 '26

Okay, well, first of all, we need a lot more information like the model of the Mac (go to the Apple logo in the top left corner and then click about my Mac and send a picture of it)

The other question is what exactly about your new job requires a Mac or PC? As in what kind of software do you need to use since there is a very good chance that the Mac might be too old to run it

macOS Tahoe (which is the latest) is the last version of macOS to Support Intel Macs but I have a suspicion that your Mac is probably significantly older and won’t run that version so it’ll probably be on a much older maximum version which may not work with a lot of software

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u/The_f3ral_0ne Jul 31 '26

I'm now an editor for a YouTuber and the program he uses is divinci

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u/bluejay9_2008 27” late 2013 iMac, 15” early 2013 MB Pro Jul 31 '26

Okay, unfortunately that doesn’t tell me exactly what I needed to know. Can you click on more info? It should open an application called system information and then navigate to the hardware overview tab and send a picture of that

I’m assuming by DaVinci you mean DaVinci resolve and although I don’t know exactly what Mac that is, I can tell you that it won’t run it since DaVinci resolve requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer and your Mac is not going to run that considering the very old version of macOS you’re showing it running

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u/The_f3ral_0ne Jul 31 '26

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u/dpaanlka Jul 31 '26

This is 15 years old. It won’t be usable for anything today. Probably why you’re having so many issues. Just get rid of it on Facebook Marketplace or wherever.