Sonoma on older Macs

[jchuzi]

According to macOS Sonoma can be installed on 83 unsupported Macs with this tool I can use Sonoma on my (now obsolete) iMac. I'm sure that I won't do it because I can't assume that it will cause more trouble than it's worth. Comments?

[Xairbusdriver]

“Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!” — Robot

“The impossible happens all the time, you just have to believe it can."

[krissel]

I used a patcher years ago to run a non-supported MacOS on an older MBP and it worked well except for the fact that it could not run any new security updates without totally reinstalling from scratch.


I don't know if this patcher has the same limitation but of course there are features that will not work due to the limitations of the hardware on older Macs. I would try it on a Mac that is not necessarily my main machine so if things go belly-up then no big deal. Of course a full backup would be my first move.


More details: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

[Xairbusdriver]

And you want to update  your System why?!

Software upgrade led to [Canadian National] computer outage.

[Larry]

Fortunately on my 2017 Macbook Air it doesn't work, but on my ipad it does, and im my opinion all of these tweaks, updates are just gimmicks, aren't they?

[Xairbusdriver]

  HERESY!!

Obviously you have know idea how hard it is to fixx erers!!! Problems in Cheetah have been completely eliminated, except for the speling.

[krissel]

 

[jchuzi]

Here's a reason (maybe) to update the OS: I subscribe to MS Office 365 and the latest update to those apps requires OS 12 or later. This is not a big deal to me because I only use MS Word and it does what I want. Still, this is annoying.

[Xairbusdriver]

"...this is annoying..."

Are you complaining about M$ or Apple?

[jchuzi]

I could complain about both MS and Apple but MS is the more obvious target. Apple users LOVE to bash MS. It's what we live for.