macos

calluc · February 26, 2023

hi my borother wants to use an audio hub but for the soft ware he needs macos 10.14 or newer but our macbook pro (i5 500gb sata ssd both ram slots occupite)form 2011 only support macos 10.13.6 how can i update it (via a replacement 2,5 120gb hdd from an old mac )how can i do that?

Needfuldoer · February 26, 2023

OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a project that lets old Macs boot newer versions of Mac OS than they can natively.

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

Just not that if you have an Nvidia GPU, you'll have to either fall back to the Intel graphics or just not have acceleration once you pass a certain point.

BondiBlue · February 27, 2023

On 2/26/2023 at 7:13 AM, Needfuldoer said:

Just not that if you have an Nvidia GPU, you'll have to either fall back to the Intel graphics or just not have acceleration once you pass a certain point.

2011 MacBook Pros don't have Nvidia GPUs, but it doesn't really matter since OP has a 13" model without a dedicated GPU.

What Nvidia GPUs aren't supported? I know some of the older models still don't work completely, but I thought the newer Mac models with Nvidia GPUs (2012 iMac, 2012-2014 MacBook Pro 15", etc.) were supported properly by OCLP.

Needfuldoer · February 27, 2023

9 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

2011 MacBook Pros don't have Nvidia GPUs, but it doesn't really matter since OP has a 13" model without a dedicated GPU.

What Nvidia GPUs aren't supported? I know some of the older models still don't work completely, but I thought the newer Mac models with Nvidia GPUs (2012 iMac, 2012-2014 MacBook Pro 15", etc.) were supported properly by OCLP.

I thought there wasn't any native Nvidia support past High Sierra because Apple and Nvidia got into a slap fight when Metal became the standard.

Honestly I haven't paid too much attention to the generational differences in Intel Macs. Most of my Mac experience is with their beige ancestors.

BondiBlue · February 27, 2023

8 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

I thought there wasn't any native Nvidia support past High Sierra because Apple and Nvidia got into a slap fight when Metal became the standard.

Honestly I haven't paid too much attention to the generational differences in Intel Macs. Most of my Mac experience is with their beige ancestors.

Oh, that issue. That only applies to Maxwell and Pascal GPUs that could be installed in a Mac Pro. Those required the Nvidia Web Driver to function, and it wasn't supported past High Sierra. Nothing from the 16/20 series (Turing) was ever supported by macOS for this reason. Some people have gotten the old Nvidia driver to work in much later versions of macOS with OCLP, but that's still nowhere near complete usability last I checked.

Older Macs that shipped with Nvidia GPUs should work just fine. Some even have official macOS support past High Sierra, such as my 2014 15" MacBook Pro (GT 750M) that supports Big Sur.