MacOS Catalina is coming in October, Apple quietly revealed on its Catalina site following Apple’s event on Sept. 10 at the Steve Jobs Theater at its campus in Cupertino, California. At the event, Apple also rolled out new iPads, Apple Arcade, iPhones, Watch Series 5 smartwatches and Apple TV.
In Catalina, Apple will replace the iTunes app with three separate apps: Apple Music,Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. Just as useful, the revision lets Mac users run iPad apps they can download through the Mac App Store and use an iPad as a second screen, much in the way you might use a monitor.
While we wait for the free Catalina update, you can do a bit of preparation now to make sure the installation goes as smoothly as possible when it is available.
Check you can run Catalina
While Catalina brings a boatload of improvements, its hardware requirements remain the same as for MacOS Mojave, the current version of the OS. So if you can run Mojave, you can run Catalina. Here are the Macs that meet the requirements:
- Macbook 2015 or later
- MacBook Air 2012 or later
- MacBook Pro 2012 or later
- Mac mini 2012 or later
- iMac 2012 or later
- iMac Pro 2017 or later
- Mac Pro 2013 or later
To check which Mac you have, from the Apple menu, choose About This Mac. The Overview tab displays which Mac you have.
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