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  • OpenCore Legacy Patcher?

    From Chris Schram@chrispam1@me.com to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.vintage on Mon Dec 4 12:45:02 2023
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    Las night while I was rotting my mind browsing YouTube, I stumbled upon
    a tutorial for installing OpenCore Legacy Patcher, a collection of
    utilities to facilitate installation of macOS Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma
    on Intel Macs too old or otherwise ineligible, as determined by Apple. I
    had never heard of this hack before, and I'm wondering if anyone in this
    group has had experience with it. Or is it too good to be true?

    I have am early 2025 MacBook Air that is not supposed to go beyond
    Monterey, so it's entering its final year of macOS updates. It's not
    that the newer macOS versions have major features that would compel an unauthorized upgrade. At this point I'm just asking out of curiosity.

    HISTORY: One-upon-a-time I had a G4 iMac that wasn't supposed to go
    beyond Tiger, and using a hack managed to get it up and running in
    Leopard. It ran flawlessly, with no known incompatibilities, but was
    noticeably slower, which took some getting used to.

    MORE HISTORY: I still have an old plastic MacBook that I keep around for
    a few legacy apps. It topped out at El Capitan, which made it unusably
    slow. I put an SSD in it for a time, which got the speed back, but I
    eventually sprung for a newer Mac, and reverted the old MacBook back to spinning rust. At a later time I downgraded from El Capitan back to
    Yosemite, and performance improved.
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  • From henry999@henry999@eircom.net (Henry) to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.vintage on Wed Dec 6 13:58:13 2023
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    Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> wrote:

    ... OpenCore Legacy Patcher, a collection of
    utilities to facilitate installation of macOS Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma
    on Intel Macs too old or otherwise ineligible, as determined by Apple. I
    had never heard of this hack before, and I'm wondering if anyone in this group has had experience with it. Or is it too good to be true?


    I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that was retired a couple of years ago. I
    heard about OCLP and thought 'why not?' I installed the hack -- pretty straight-forward -- and ran Big Sur for some time. Then I upgraded to
    Monterey. Works like a charm. Yes, it is slow. But this old boy now sits
    in a corner of my LAN running 24/7 as a file server and all is well.
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