MacOS Sonoma running on Macbook Pro 2011

In this video I tried to run macOS Sonoma via OpenCore Legacy Patcher on 13" MacBook Pro 2011 with i7, 8GB RAM and with SSD installed

[visualizerk]

Have you tried NVRam reset? Do it couple of times and Bluetooth will work after that. Also you need to run post install script.

[Ryan_Revier]

It might be good if it runs on the OCLP Big Sur since it supports the graphic accelerations better than Sonoma.

[daveconnor]

I've a machine of the same spec and find Ventura runs pretty well on it. Heard mixed reports on Sonoma so I'm going to stick where I am for a while i think

[BigSplash]

Early 2011 15" MacBook Pro
2 GHz, 16gb ram, 512ssd

OCL Ver. 1.5.0
(Current as of June 23, 2024.

I've upgraded from El Capiton, all the way to Sonoma, a few times just to verify & here's what I can tell you. After macOS Monterey (Ventura and above), the performance is horrible. It works but it's choppy/laggy. Wallpapers won't want to show, and it's just not worth keeping just to say you have the latest OS running.

I went back to Monterey and it's flawless!

[LexyDaShmexxy]

i'm curious on how the macbook itself handles workloads as last time i ran ventura on my 2011 macbook pro it kept getting to 100c when doing anything

[vibrationoftheone]

Amazing to see. Just curious if you tried Monterey? I have Mac 17inch 2011 running Mojave. It’s been stable patcher version. I found Catalina buggy. But I have high sierra dual booted for issues. I got Monterey working but then it stopped working when I tried installing it to the internal drive. But so far Mojave has been good. I notice the video playback sometimes affected by the browser or if you use the on board graphics or not

[hellboy]

Nice. Thanks for testing it out. Just wondering if the AMD GPU issue for 2011 mbp still present on Sonoma asumming it dosen't have amd support anymore. In my case I disabled descret gpu via software and on High Sierra it runs great.

[VulgoGS]

Thanks, I am gonna stay on High Sierra ! :D

[Elvis_Nogueira]

I have a Mac Book 2011 8.2, I installed Sonoma and I had a Bluetooth problem, so I went into the terminal and used these 2 commands:

sudo nvram

sudo nvram

I restarted and I'm using my Bluetooth headphones

[twinflametaurus]

Too old for it.
They are still having major issues even on Ventura with opencore .

[windows_.flopparuns]

Hey that's a really rice Mac right there