macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Lucky736]

Looks like all pre-Retinas and the first Retinas will be dropped. Mid 2013 and newer only.

The first retinas was a bit of a surprise. Those are still pretty powerful machines.

 

[macsba]

Just posting in so I can get reminders for this thread.

 

[SGN]

The first retinas was a bit of a surprise. Those are still pretty powerful machines.

the 2012's still are for daily tasks with an SSD, so even though a small part in me expected it i was still surprised.

 

[eVasilis]

Any idea if BootCamp will work with their custom silicon mac?

I would guess that it is possible as there is windows 10 running on arm processors

 

[tn-xyz]

It has a big bugs list already;

Apple Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com

god... it’s like they completely outsource beta testing, no shame involved.

 

[Zahilla]

Do you guys think it will be possible to run macOS Big Sir on my early 2008 20 inch iMac and late 2009 27 inch iMac (core i7)? I really don't want them to be unsupported for good

 

[PiggyGamingYT3]

I really like macOS Big Sur. It's a good update so far and I'm hoping I can run it on my 2011 MacBook

 

[linwe]

Arghhh, it's pretty unfair and unreasonable they left iMac Late 2013 out!
Hope it can be made to work, because Big Sur sure looks great.

 

[CharlieRuiz97]

Any idea if BootCamp will work with their custom silicon mac?

Don't believe that will work... But still exist parallels to run windows via VM... I know windows 10 for arm exist but we don't know how well it will work under Apple's A series... And windows for arm doesn't run x64 apps only x86 so there's no reason to install it anyways...

 

[Adamscomputerrepair]

I’m betting almost anything that Windows on ARM will work on these Macs. They VM’d Linux (God only knows why), so I assume they’ll either have a solution (like a Rosetta for .exe files), or a WOA bootcamp. If not, we got it running on a Raspberry Pi 4. How much harder could an ARM Mac be?

 

[Cindy_Thornton]

Will they FINALLY support my 2006 20 inch iMac please! I haven't been supported by patcher since El Capitan and I need to run Big Sur on my 2006 so

 

[PiggyGamingYT3]

Does anyone know how to get the Big Sur installer app

 

[Payne Mononymous Bachman]

Arghhh, it's pretty unfair and unreasonable they left iMac Late 2013 out!
Hope it can be made to work, because Big Sur sure looks great.

I agree 100%. I have a 2013 imac and just upgraded it with a 240GB SSD but just like in the past I know that dosdude1 will make a great patcher just like he did for all the other versions of Mac OS. I also can not wait to see what these amazing people in this thread will accomplish with being able to run Mac OS Big Sur on unsupported Macs. I wish everyone good luck to make this possible.

 

[Cindy_Thornton]

I agree 100%. I have a 2013 imac and just upgraded it with a 240GB SSD but just like in the past I know that dosdude1 will make a great patcher just like he did for all the other versions of Mac OS. I also can not wait to see what these amazing people in this thread will accomplish with being able to run Mac OS Big Sur on unsupported Macs. I wish everyone good luck to make this possible.

MY 2006 IMAC PLEASE!!!! I WANT THAT TO BE SUPPORTED FFS IVE BEEN WAITING AGES FOR HIM TO MAKE A PATCHER FOR IT AND ALSO MY MID 2007 IMAC RUNNING Big Sur WOULD BE NICE IT HAS A UPGRADED SSE4 CPU

 

[Payne Mononymous Bachman]

MY 2006 IMAC PLEASE!!!! I WANT THAT TO BE SUPPORTED FFS IVE BEEN WAITING AGES FOR HIM TO MAKE A PATCHER FOR IT AND ALSO MY MID 2007 IMAC RUNNING Big Sur WOULD BE NICE IT HAS A UPGRADED SSE4 CPU

It would be very cool to see this run on a 2006 and also a 2007. From my understanding it really depends on if the 2006 and 2007 has AMD graphics or Nvidia graphics. If they have Nvidia graphics then there may be a possibility of a patcher working for both of those years.

 

[Cindy_Thornton]

I agree 100%. I have a 2013 imac and just upgraded it with a 240GB SSD but just like in the past I know that dosdude1 will make a great patcher just like he did for all the other versions of Mac OS. I also can not wait to see what these amazing people in this thread will accomplish with being able to run Mac OS Big Sur on unsupported Macs. I wish everyone good luck to make this possible.

my 2006 iMac has 1 tb ssd and 4 ram I put more work in it then your 2013 plus its better 1 tb
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It would be very cool to see this run on a 2006 and also a 2007. From my understanding it really depends on if the 2006 and 2007 has AMD graphics or Nvidia graphics. If they have Nvidia graphics then there may be a possibility of a patcher working for both of those years.

they both have AMD graphics. my 2006 has a radeon x1600 and my 2007 has a radeon 2600 pro

 

[duecedrvr]

Man you want to talk about rage.. wait for a couple years when apple announces macos xx will drop intel completely.. and production shops that just dropped hundred of thousands on the new mac pro will go BIZERK

 

[nandor690]

If you haven't seen the post on rmc.ch/newsroom: I'm switching to Linux and won't develop a patcher this year. I also think this isn't a desktop OS.

✌️

 

[Macbookprodude]

This thread will be used to discuss advancements in getting macOS 11 Big Sur running on unsupported Macs.

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Possibly the new home for pre 2013 Macs. ? ?

Good luck getting this to work when Apple is going back to PowerPC (ARM sorry).. if you manage to get this to work on 2012 non-retina post it here.

 

[Dr Alves]

@dosdude1 i have a mid 2012 non retina!
Make the "BIG miracle" for me!
You is the guy!????

 

[Macbookprodude]

I'll be here for testing brother! let's get at it!

What you think about the new PowerPC Macs coming ?? Arm is the brother or cousin to PowerPC.

 

[Vital L]

I hope my Mac mini Late 2012 will be supported by new MacOS Big Sur Patcher!!!!!!

 

[Macbookprodude]

Maybe it's the Intel HD 4000 that's no longer supported. Everything with at least the HD 5000 or Iris Graphics is still supported.

If that’s the case, we need to replace HD 4000 or mod it.

 

[ASentientBot]

I created a basic patch which seems to get a copy of the OS installed.

My steps (briefly) were:
- Disable Library Validation and SIP
- launchctl setenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES $PWD/Hax.dylib
- Open and click through the installer app

Edit: I failed to mention that -no_compat_check in NVRAM is also, unsurprisingly, required.

This is all that's necessary for an "install to this machine" outcome. However, it currently does not boot... will report back if I figure anything out. Working on my 7,1 without acceleration. See my later posts.

For anyone else who only has an unsupported machine and wants to test, here are the files! There are definitely alternatives like using OpenCore, cloning from a supported machine, etc. But thought I'd share this anyways.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Ugh. Dropping the 2012 Mac mini and leaving the 2014. That just seems cruel.

MacOS support is completely arbitrary at this point. I miss when there was some kind of reason to justify dropping the older models.

Welcome to Tim Tiberius’s era of Hurt ! I knew when jobs died Apple would PLUMMET.
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I created a basic patch which seems to get a copy of the OS installed.
View attachment 926159

My steps (briefly) were:
- Disable Library Validation and SIP
- launchctl setenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES $PWD/Hax.dylib
- Open and click through the installer app

This is all that's necessary for an "install to this machine" outcome. However, it currently does not boot... will report back if I figure anything out.

For anyone else who only has an unsupported machine and wants to test, here are the files! There are definitely alternatives like using OpenCore, cloning from a supported machine, etc. But thought I'd share this anyways.

will a 2011 work ?