Just got a mid 2010 13 inch macbook pro with a 512gb ssd and 8gb of ram, thinking about doing the oclp patch and sonoma, will sonoma work or better off with something other than sonoma. It has 10.9 on it now, so would have to likely do at least sierra.
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just got a mid 2010 macbook pro and thinking about sonoma
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I have MacBook Air 2020 with 8gb RAM, it runs sluggish on Big Sur. I couldn’t imagine if the older machine (OP’s 2010 macbook pro) runs Sonoma (3 version newer than Big Sur). It may still functional but uncomfortable (sluggish & slow)
Not true at all, I have a 2013 MacBook Air with only 4GB RAM and running Sonoma 14.3.1. It don't break any speed records but it works, I don't use Safari, I prefer Arc Browser. It just depends on what you want to do with it.
So, I did the upgrade to Sonoma yesterday morning. So far it runs Sonoma just as nicely as it did Monterey. Only been about a day now, but the Sonoma upgrade fixed the safari issues with closing additional website tabs, and seems to have stopped the random mail app crashes, for the mail app it may take a couple days to convince me it is fixed, but so far mail has not crashed once which is a good thing as that would get annoying when it decided to act up, usually in the middle of typing an email. So far so good with that too. Do not notice any slowness at all on it, it does have a 500gb ssd and 8gb of ram so should be golden.
Hey there! Do you still use Sonoma on your MacBook? I have the same 2010 MacBook Pro with Monterey. How does Sonoma run on this MBP? I’d like to know if it’s worth to install Sonoma on it?
It works very decently on it. You will need a 2.0 usb dock and a wired keyboard and mouse though as after it is installed and before you do the post install patches the keyboard and trackpad quit functioning. after the post install patches the keyboard and keyboard back lighting and track pad returns and works normal. I am typing this on Sonoma 14.3.1. Just noticed the OCLP version is released to be able to go to 14.4.1 for non metal macs like these. thinking about doing it tonight.