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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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I finally did it
 

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PBear.SF said:
Re 10.14.1 Developer Preview, released today: Don't you mean "advisable to NOT install"?
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I finally got it to install on my internal hdd at first it got stuck at the white screen with the apple logo so I rebooted into my usb Mojave patcher clicked on startup disk and choose my internal hdd and got it to boot later will try the external hdd
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visberry said:
Are these software updates something I should be doing?
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Yes install the updated patches
 

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So I finally had time to install Mojave (18A391) on my 2011 27" iMac with the 780m. I'm happy to say that waking from sleep is now fully functional. It wasn't functional on the 18a389 but is now, which is strange I thought they were identical.
 
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cinergi said:
My report from upgrading a mid-2011 iMac 27" with AMD Radeon 6790 GPU:

- As has already been stated in this thread, the Disk Utility included in the Mojave Patch tool can't mount encrypted APFS volumes. It never asks for a password and doesn't mount the drive. It doesn't work via command line either (diskutil mount). It is therefore necessary to disable Filevault before installing Mojave, and re-enabling it after. I don't think this issue is confined to the mid-2011 iMac.

- Without the Legacy Video Patch, the system operates without graphical glitches in dark mode. However, it doesn't detect my external monitor. With the Legacy Video Patch installed, it detects my monitor but it has the issue that has already been reported of the window contents not refreshing when dragging a window.

- The video performance is jerky (not smooth) even for everyday operations like scrolling Web pages in Safari, the animation when opening folders, etc. This is of course due to the lack of video acceleration.

I went into this with my eyes open, fully aware of the limitations of running Mojave on this model iMac. I wanted to see for myself. My conclusion is that the tradeoffs are unacceptable (for me at least) and I'll be reverting to High Sierra.

By the way, nice touch to the Mojave Patch Tool: a "Restore System from Time Machine Backup" utility is now included (it wasn't present in the High Sierra Patch Tool). This makes full system recovery quite easy, assuming one has a valid Time Machine backup of course.

Thanks to dosdude1 for providing the patch tool! Unfortunately, High Sierra seems to be the end of the line for this old iMac. Time to upgrade...

-cinergi
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I'll stick with High Sierra as well, I will hopefully be upgrading my iMac with my Tax return in Jan. :)



Kallum.
 
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It didn't last long I rebooted after installing 10.14.1 now stuck on the apple logo , tried booting into my external hdd with 10.14 it gets stuck my usb Mojave patcher can't boot into I think I am sol :(
 
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So to confirm, you are unable to update to MacOS Mojave 10.14.1 Developer beta 1?
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Nope but I did a disk check and got this. I wonder if Apple did a update for APFS with the 10.14.1 as what I find is weird I have 4 EFI partition where I normally only have 2
 

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yeiyei0891 said:
Nothing is using the CPU. I installed the patches by default for my MacBook with patcher tool.
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Should I install that patch?
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Your laptop has an nVidia Tesla GPU that will gain full acceleration with the patch. Do it, if you haven't already. You can easily check -- do you have acceleration? If so, it's already installed.
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CharlieRuiz97 said:
Thanks @dosdude1 for your Patcher tool!!!. Mojave is working perfect on my Macbook 7,1 (white unibody mid-2010) with 3GB ram and it's original hard drive. I made a fresh install on monday and i was testing and works faster than high sierra the only issues i got is with the app news that magically desappeared from aplications and with the LCD color profile, colors look weird and seen too warm for that reason i'm using the generic RGB color profile that looks nicer. What can i do to fix the LCD color issue. and another thing, How can i get night shift on my mac.View attachment 789357 View attachment 789358
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I have this MacBook and helped find some of the patches for it. Never had any trouble with screen colors... Not sure what's up with yours but you might try calibrating it -- there's a button right there. Otherwise, a re-install of the legacy video patch and/or the whole system might help? It is noticeably different from HS?

Get more RAM!

Patch for Night Shift following the tutorial here or use @jackluke's pre-patched copy.

And an SSD!

The News app only shows up in /Applications if you are in a certain region (ex. the US).
 
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@dosdude1 do you have any guide to disable non-temporarily dGPU on iMac Mid 2011, to use the Intel one? (like your guide for MBP)
and if yes, how can be reverted?
 
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