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    HW acceleration on MacBook7,1?

    Hi, I did a search but I didn’t find an answer. On MacBook7,1 will there be HW acceleration installing Monterey via Open Core Legacy Patcher? It has an integrated NVIDIA GeForce 320M, I know about Big Sur HW accelerated on this MacBook. Reading OCLP info pages about Monterey on unsupported Mac...
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    macOS 13 Ventura on Unsupported Macs Thread

    This thread will be dedicated to the discussion of running macOS 13.0 on Unsupported Macs Welcome to the new macOS Ventura on Unsupported Macs thread! We're eagerly awaiting for all our community developers and enthusiasts to test out the new version of macOS. Please play it by ear and only...
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    The Mac OS X86 Project - The Ultimate OS X Lion for 32-bit Macs

    As you may know, Mac OS X Lion dropped support for 32-bit Intel Macs. Mountain Lion also removed the 32-bit kernel and EFI bootloader. However, it's possible to get Lion running on 32-bit Macs by swapping out the kernel, the bootloader, and the Finder, as well as some drivers (kexts) and...
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    Wifi driver not found in Mac mini 2009 High Sierra

    Hi Experts, Can somebody please guide me any working solution for my Mac min Late 2009 used by my child for homework. Few months back I used @dosdude1 solution to install high Sierra and wifi was working fantastic , when I updated high Sierra I found that there was issue - "wifi no hardware...
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    Risks of having macOS High Sierra after support ends

    Hi. I've seen there's a thread for High Sierra on unsupported macs, but I have some specific questions. So as I understand, Apple will stop releasing updates for macOS High Sierra in September this year, is this correct? I have a Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010 and High Sierra is the newest macOS...
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    Radeon HD video downgrade for patched-Mojave compatibility

    Regarding the CTO 27" 2010 iMac with 2.93 GHz i7 processor, I attempted booting a machine of this model with a patched version of macOS 10.14 Mojave and succeeded, but true to warnings on the patch publisher's web page (dosdude1.com) video and other performance proved to be woefully inadequate...