Exploring White 2010 MacBook

[philgxxd]

Just installed dosdude1’s patched Catalina on this MacBook7,1 just to try out Apple Arcade for the kids.
I tried to install Lego Brawl but it requires BigSur.
I tried Way of the turtle but it complains (in the console) about something Metal (guess there is no workaround for a missing Metal graphics card).
I only managed to install successfully Sneaky Sasquatch but there are graphics glitches like the decision making bubbles.
Anyone tried out Apple Arcade on our patched systems and had better luck?

 

[MultiFinder17]

Unfortunately a lot of those games will have endless issues on our older Macs due to, as you mentioned, Metal. While the shims that make the OS run work well enough, they can't save things that depend on Metal support. Alas, it's simply part of the fun of using these old machines - seeing what does and doesn't work and seeing just how far they can be pushed!

 

[TheShortTimer]

While the shims that make the OS run work well enough, they can't save things that depend on Metal support.

DosDude created patches for more recent versions of Zoom that rely on Metal for video rendering. Perhaps similar measures could be created for games?

 

[philgxxd]

Thanks a lot guys. I will try to read through the unsupported thread, i'm sure someone has experiences and possible solutions to share.
I can say coming from El Capitan on this machine with the stock mechanical HDD and 4gb of RAM that it rather feels sluggish.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Thanks a lot guys. I will try to read through the unsupported thread, i'm sure someone has experiences and possible solutions to share.
I can say coming from El Capitan on this machine with the stock mechanical HDD and 4gb of RAM that it rather feels sluggish.

Although my MBA has the advantage over your machine of an SSD, the RAM is half of what yours has and the CPU is considerably slower but nonetheless Catalina runs great.

Have you tried turning off/minimising graphical effects? It makes a huge difference with macOS in general. This thread has some good information that you might find helpful.

 

[philgxxd]

No, i didn't tweak yet but i see that they are mentioning our old friend onyx so that i will try out. Very convenient.

 

[MultiFinder17]

Thanks a lot guys. I will try to read through the unsupported thread, i'm sure someone has experiences and possible solutions to share.
I can say coming from El Capitan on this machine with the stock mechanical HDD and 4gb of RAM that it rather feels sluggish.

A mechanical HDD and 4GB of RAM will make any machine feel sluggish running anything

Seriously though, an SSD and some more RAM will pep that thing up and make it feel notably newer than its year would indicate. I have a 240GB SSD and 16GB of RAM in my 2010, and it makes an amazing difference in its performance, especially when compared to the school-owned 2010s with their HDDs and 4GB.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Plus in most instances, those stock HDDs were never particularly stellar in the first place - anything would be better than the drives they were supplied with originally. For a company that charges a small fortune for its products, the cost certainly isn't reflected in many of their hardware choices...

 

[Amethyst1]

Plus in most instances, those stock HDDs were never particularly stellar in the first place

4200rpm anyone? Or "better" yet, the 1.8" drives in the pre-2010 MBAs.

For a company that charges a small fortune for its products, the cost certainly isn't reflected in many of their hardware choices...

But itz all about teh profit!!11oneoneeleven

 

[MultiFinder17]

4200rpm anyone? Or "better" yet, the 1.8" drives in the pre-2010 MBAs.

Shudder

I had a late 2008 MacBook Air for a couple of years as my main laptop, and originally got it with that thing that could only very generously be called a workable boot drive. I use it like that for nearly a year before biting the bullet and forking over some money to OWC for an SSD. It was a decent little laptop after that! At least until the hinges snapped and got repaired. I sold it shortly after the repair.

 

[Amethyst1]

that thing that could only very generously be called a workable boot drive.

Oh, it was a workable boot drive - for an iPod.

 

[Amethyst1]

Oh, it was a workable boot drive - for an iPod.

At some point, I wanna see Tiger booting from an iPod mini's 3600rpm 1.0" Microdrive