What if your Mac is not supported by macOS Sonoma?

Apple ended support for a lot of Mac models - but what if your Mac is one of these but you'd like to have the latest macOS? In this video I give you an overview on which Mac models it's worth installing macOS 14 Sonoma with the OpenCore Legacy Patcher and what might be the problems...

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Latest OpenCore Legacy Patcher download:

OpenCore Legacy Patcher "Nightly Builds":

dosdude1's macOS patcher (macOS "Sierra" to "Catalina"):

OTHER VIDEOS:
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Ultimate Tutorial for macOS on UNSUPPORTED MACs:

MacPro 2012 FASTER than the LATEST Intel Mac:

No Boot Selector on MacPro with PC graphic card?

All MAC shortcuts & boot modes:

30% more performance on UNSUPPORTED MACs:

Trouble with UNSUPPORTED MACs with OpenCore?

CHAPTERS:
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0:00 Introduction
1:23 Mac model overview
4:15 MacBook Air
4:35 MacBook Pro
5:03 Mac mini
5:20 iMac
6:02 Mac Pro
6:36 Xserve
7:01 Real world testing
7:55 Maps App
9:26 Weather App
10:32 AppleTV App
12:15 Safari Browser
13:07 Macs from 2011 or older
14:45 Ventura on 2011 iMac
15:31 Monterey on 2011 iMac
15:55 Big Sur on 2011 iMac
16:09 dosdude1's patcher
17:31 High Sierra or Big Sur?
18:11 Join my Discord server

If there are any concerns about copyright, please do not hesitate to contact me! All credits go to the creators of OpenCore, OC Legacy Patcher and many more who made all this possible!

#JessiesFlying #MacPro #MacBook

[BrianBoniMakes]

Auto companies are required to support cars to at least ten years old. Some of those Mac models are less than five years old.

[MarksShedTalk]

This answered a lot of questions I had been searching for, thank you.

[Volvo]

I really can't thank you enough for your videos, they are so very helpful for those of us using older Macs. I have a 2011 21.5 inch, and I have it running Ventura currently. I can deal with the Bluetooth and Maps, and everything else seems fine on it. I actually watched the entire Apple event on it today. It really annoys me how just a handful of developers can get newer versions of MacOS running pretty decently on these older Macs, but Apple just pulls the plug after only a few years. I'm actually kind of worried about what is going to happen when MacOS no longer supports ANY Intel based Mac at all. Its going to be PowerPC all over again...I look forward to your more in depth review of Sonoma on these older machines!

[ProductivePM]

Jessie, thank you for the video. It inspired me to take the plunge and upgrade to Ventura on my 2009 Mac Pro 4, 1. At first, the Bluetooth did not work. I reinstalled Open Core Legacy Patcher and re-ran the Key Patcher and now everything works great. I am waiting until the official release of Sonoma before upgrading to that. Thank you once again and keep making great videos . . .

[jelmarladisla]

Thank God I found your channel!. I was already tempting to install macOs sonoma RC on my MBP 9, 2. I will just wait for our hardworking developers of OCLP for this issue to be resolve. I will stay on Ventura for the mean time.

[hm_]

Excellent video. Clears the fog on what OS upgrades really work and what to avoid.

[fookoo]

as always GREAT VIDEO JESSIE!!!! I'm loving Sonoma with my cMP's!!!! OCLP v0.6.9 Nightly!!!!

[artysanmobile]

That 30 second limit is quite the firewall. It might even get me out of the house for a change.

[marklyngstad]

I’m running Ventura 13.6 on my early 2011 iMac 21.5 inch, also I used the latest OpenCore Legacy Patcher 0.68 and seems to run great and Bluetooth is working well.

[daviddaniel]

To get graphics acceleration in Catalina in the 2011 iMac, you need to use OCLP v0.4.3 to install the patches since dosdude1 patcher still doesn't support AMD HD 5000/6000 series GPUs

[RobloxianX]

You can do an OS Patch and get to macOS 14. Here are the models that can support macOS 14 via patching

iMac - 2012 or later.
MacBook Air - Late 2008 or later.
MacBook Pro - Early 2008 or later.
Mac Mini - Late 2009 or later. (Early 2009 requires 4GB of RAM)
Mac Pro - Early 2008 or later.

[Walkwalk]

If I find issues after upgrading to Sonoma, is it possible to repent and go back to the latest Apple support OS? 😅

[Mbro-dqdo]

Open Core runs my Sonoma flawlessly on my 2015 15" MacBook pros. Im running Ventura on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" laptops. ALL perfectly folks

[ladeluff_]

awesome Jessie. i have sonoma running on three of my macs aswell

[markferreri]

I was hoping to hear in this video about OS for my recently purchased (09/16/2023) trash can. It’s one of the maxed out 12 core models w/ 64gig off RAM and dual 700 GPU cards.

[andylee]

Since this nice gentleman tested, open core now supports the newest Sonoma 4.3

So maybe some issues in this review do not apply anymore.

[AindriuMacGiollaEoin]

some interesting findings there, thanks doc

[JohanDee]

Just a remark unrelated. Still running Monterey 12.6.8. on my Pro 2010. I saw an update message today in System preferences. Of course for Ventura and then for others: 12.6.7! 🤣

[josephfredbill]

I wish @Luke_Miani would make this kind of video on iPhones instead of raving about how the i15 is the biggest upgrade ever and would look great in his Porsche ;-). (all in fun)

[dbbias]

Thank you for this very helpful video ❤