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Imagine my surprise when I try to download Yosemite a few months ago out of pure laziness and find I can't because my "Disk has S.M.A.R.T errors". I have never heard of these, I don't know what they do, and I don't know what causes them but lately all these spontaneous and illogical issues with Apple devices have just been stacking up so I'm genuinely unsurprised.
El Capitan just came out so I tried the same thing. My Macbook Pro likes to randomly lag uncontrollably at times and I heard it was much faster (I haven't used Safari in well over a year because I couldn't even get the app to run without freezing and crashing on startup)...and got the same result:
Is there any way for me to get El Capitan downloaded without having to backup everything (which is a notable pain because it takes ages), spend several hundred dollars (again), and wait several weeks for this unexplained anomaly? I've heard you can get this message by mistake and don't have to go through that entire process, but I have no idea how to fix it.
Oh and I tried submitting this to the Apple Support Forums but I think they blocked me over an earlier issue in which some dude named Peter threw a massive tantrum because I wasn't a complete basement-dwelling geek with several college degrees that would've led me to delve far deeper into the problem technologically and solve it myself. Such a wonderful and benevolently helpful community that has also charged me over $2,000 over 3 years for this mediocre product lol
El Capitan just came out so I tried the same thing. My Macbook Pro likes to randomly lag uncontrollably at times and I heard it was much faster (I haven't used Safari in well over a year because I couldn't even get the app to run without freezing and crashing on startup)...and got the same result:
Is there any way for me to get El Capitan downloaded without having to backup everything (which is a notable pain because it takes ages), spend several hundred dollars (again), and wait several weeks for this unexplained anomaly? I've heard you can get this message by mistake and don't have to go through that entire process, but I have no idea how to fix it.
Oh and I tried submitting this to the Apple Support Forums but I think they blocked me over an earlier issue in which some dude named Peter threw a massive tantrum because I wasn't a complete basement-dwelling geek with several college degrees that would've led me to delve far deeper into the problem technologically and solve it myself. Such a wonderful and benevolently helpful community that has also charged me over $2,000 over 3 years for this mediocre product lol