Discontinuing El Cap Support???

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October 16, 2018
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Seriously? Adobe is discontinuing a subscription product for El Capitan when Apple hasn’t updated their pro machines in 5 years and is about to update them in the next few months? This seems pretty malicious!

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Correct answer Jeff Arola

If your feeling brave you might be able to update your mac to High Sierra using these instructions:

How to Install macOS High Sierra on an Unsupported Mac - YouTube

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I too am using El Cap on an "ancient" Mac Pro Mid 2012 machine. If I upgrade to the next OS, quite a few pieces of software will no longer be able to work.

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Yeah. El Cap was one of the good stable points. This is part of why I’m hoping to change systems just once in the next 12 months. Currently El Cap is still 14% of MacOS users.

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Most Macs made after 2009 can run Sierra/High Sierra. Apple is no longer supporting those machines (I have an early 2009 iMac that is limited to El Capitan) but hey that's over nine years. You can run High Sierra on 2011 iMacs and MacBook Pros, which go for about $3-400 on the used market.

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Did the software suddenly become useless just because a newer version came out? I don't understand your point of view unless you believe that only new is any good.

This is of Apple's doing. They are making faster and faster system changes to try and force developers into very narrow "up to date" models. Adobe have certainly embraced that.

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That would be perfectly right if it wasn’t for the subscription model under which my only option for keeping the Photoshop I already have is to pay for all the updates. But now Adobe is restricting updates a little to narrowly and I have to pay for all the updates and also can’t get them.

Jeff Arola

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If your feeling brave you might be able to update your mac to High Sierra using these instructions:

How to Install macOS High Sierra on an Unsupported Mac - YouTube

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What does Apple’s machine range have to do with the operating system you run? I don’t like the policy, but so don’t see the connection you are making.

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Well, my Mac doesn’t run anything newer than El Cap, so it’s not supported by CC anymore, and I’ve been waiting 4 years for Apple to have a machine worth upgrading to. But there hasn’t been a new Pro machine that entire time. They’re expected in spring.

Hopefully CC’s back-compatibility will work as described and I can at least keep the current version despite the subscription model.