2019 27" iMac intel. Is Ventura last best OS to run FCPX 10.6.10

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2019 27" iMac intel. Is Ventura last best OS to run FCPX 10.6.10

Have brand new 2019 not yet plugged it in, due to work relocation after buying it. It was totally maxed out. I read somewhere FCPX 10.7 upgrade requires at a minimum Sonoma or newer. If true then I need to keep my iMac at Ventura.

Therefore thinking upgrade Catalina (came on iMac) to Ventura and FCPX up to 10.6.9 or 10.6.10?

Also, hope I could wipe out Catalina when I first startup the iMac to simply then install the Ventura by itself- Any of this sound O.K.?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Feb 18, 2025 1:50 PM

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Rhobes Author

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Feb 18, 2025 5:06 PM in response to Rhobes

Also read that the 2019 iMac can't be updated beyond Ventura because it is intel based and OS Sonoma & up are incompatible-

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 18, 2025 6:07 PM in response to Rhobes

Completely untrue. The 2019 iMac can run the current OS, which is compatible with recent Intel systems. There may be features in software such as FCP that require Apple silicon to function, but that does not mean that the current application and many recent ones cannot run on Intel in Sequoia or Sonoma.

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 18, 2025 5:06 PM in response to Rhobes

Is there some reason you don’t want to upgrade beyond 10.6.10?

Both Sonoma and Sequoia can also run 10.6.10. Sonoma can run earlier versions of 10.6.

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Rhobes Author

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Feb 18, 2025 4:44 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I own original version of FCPX (possibly came with or updated to 1.1 if correctly recall). The 2009 iMac it was on crashed, told not to dump $ into it, has a white screen and can't get to anything, have a Time Machine backup.

Also read somewhere that FCPX with 10.7 update will not run on anything less than Sonoma or newer. Therefore, if I just go to Ventura I could use either of the updates: 10.6.8, 10.6.9, or 10.6.10 from what I read-

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Rhobes Author

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Feb 18, 2025 8:47 PM in response to Rhobes

OK, I see that I could go up to Sequoia, playing it safe for now think I'd go with Sonoma (if all goes well can up it from there). So, for upgrading my FCPX, thinking I could do 10.7.1. I see on "creative.adobe.com" that 10.7.1 has an increased stability on Sonoma. Thinking upgrading FCP any higher without a silicon Mac probably not doing much for me.

Any direction in where to read on installing eg. Sonoma on my new 2019 iMac. Is it possible to remove the Catalina that is on it or do I just keep upgrading it till I get to Sonoma? Have not plugged it in yet- it better work the AppleCare wore off long ago

Thanks for your comments!

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Feb 19, 2025 1:12 AM in response to Rhobes

Nothing that you have told us so far seems to justify going with anything less than the current version of macOS (Sequoia 15.3.1 at the time of writing), and the current version of FCP (11.0.1).

If you choose to go with an older OS, be aware that you may not get an exact version of FCP that you desired - yo will only be offered the most recent that works for your OS. For example, if you try to download FCP when running Sonoma 14.7.4, you will only get FCP 11.0.1, the current version.

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 19, 2025 5:01 AM in response to Rhobes

You can't upgrade incrementally from Catalina. If you go to software update in System Preferences it will offer to update to Sequoia, the current OS that will run on that computer. You'll will need to download Sonoma, if that's what you want, and create a boot installer to update the OS.

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 18, 2025 2:48 PM in response to Rhobes

Why don’t you want to update to a newer OS? Is there something you work with that does not go beyond Ventura?

Do you already own FCP, or are you looking to buy it?

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2019 27" iMac intel. Is Ventura last best OS to run FCPX 10.6.10

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