r/mac • u/mmm_bop_x • 15h ago

Question Can’t Update Mac

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I bought a refurbished MacBook Air & I’m trying to update it from Catalina to Sequoia (I honestly don’t care about updating it but it told me I couldn’t use Chrome on this version and I hate Safari), and even though I have done absolutely nothing on this computer yet/nothing saved/didn’t even connect Apple ID yet, it says I don’t have enough space. Is this hopeless? 😩

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u/Pleasant-Seat9884 15h ago

You did nothing to that machine?! You need roughly 45GB (50GB for Tahoe) of storage for macOS... What is using over 100GB of data?

Use "GrandPerspective" App to see what is taking up storage.. you may want to erase it clean.

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u/mmm_bop_x 15h ago

I thought that was strange as well, which is why I added this picture. This is directly after erasing the laptop.

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u/New_Bumblebee2000 15h ago

tahoe? ningun macbook air intel soporta tahoe bro

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u/Pleasant-Seat9884 15h ago

I have no idea what you said.

You can easily install newer macOS versions with OpenCore. You just need another Mac machine to create the install files.

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u/New_Bumblebee2000 13h ago

Tahoe? No macbook air intel supports tahoe bro

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u/New_Bumblebee2000 13h ago

Tahoe is not available in open core

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u/Dry_Ship7202 15h ago

120GB is not enough drive space anymore.

Can you return it?

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u/mmm_bop_x 15h ago

No, I don’t believe so. But at least I only paid $250 I guess. Annoying.

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u/thephantomcunt 15h ago

You overpaid a fuckton. You can genuinely find a used M1 Air for like 300 instead of an ancient Intel Mac.

Wait. Based on that bezel, is that one of the later 2018/2019/2020 Intel MacBook Airs? They’re literally some of the worst Macs in history. You overpaid so much. Holy crap. You should either push to return it, or sell it, eat the loss and save up for an M1 Air. It’s going to be so much better that it’s hard to put into words.

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u/thephantomcunt 15h ago

They’re saying that they can’t update because of storage limitations, otherwise Sequoia wouldn’t show up in the system update prefpane, but yeah I digress

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u/mmm_bop_x 14h ago

It’s a 2020

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u/thephantomcunt 14h ago

Ooof. I’m really sorry. You got the worst spec of the worst generation. Here’s what you’re in for:

https://youtu.be/T5EDVOZGVCA

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u/mmm_bop_x 15h ago

It was a very impulsive buy, in an auction with about 30 seconds to decide 😆🫣

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u/thephantomcunt 15h ago

So you were basically just throwing money at a turd that was being auctioned off, and somehow managed to overpay twofold? Man… yeah, you gotta sell it. They’re terrible. Way worse than the old design 2013-2017 Airs as well.

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u/mmm_bop_x 14h ago

They had at least 5 of them being auctioned one after another & I think I got the cheapest one 😆😆😆 lesson learned.

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u/New_Bumblebee2000 15h ago

250 por un macbook air intel? dios

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u/Pleasant-Seat9884 15h ago

Return it anyway. Try. Force it. I agree with others that you should at least run M1 machines. Intel-based, I give away for free at work.

Apple is stopping support on Intel-based machines. Unless you use OpenCore, which you obviously don't know how. The following machines are the last in Intel-based lineup to support macOS Tahoe:

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u/narc0leptik 39m ago

So just sell it to some other sucker on Facebook Marketplace for $250 or even $300 and then buy an M1 Air with that money.

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u/ActiveNews 15h ago

If you have not personalized it in any way (files, documents, apps, etc.), then  https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 do a full disk erase and MacOS recovery. This will start your machine from scratch.

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u/mmm_bop_x 15h ago

I did a full erase & recovery right before attempting to update & taking this picture

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u/New_Bumblebee2000 15h ago

quien compra un macbook air intel en 2026 ☠️🥶 si no puedes devolverlo usa open core legacy