Doubt it. Not that many models were dropped this year. My gut tells me we're seeing at least one more OS release, maybe two. Then it's bye-bye, Intel.
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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Wonder if we can use the current version of Oclp to upgraded currently patchable macs to the new version.
I really think MacOS 15 is going to be the last one to support Intel
Maybe but hopefully it will be on like Mac OS 16,17 or 18 that they do that
Oh great---I finally get Ventura working great on my unsupported 2015 11,4----Back to holding my breath after each update while rebooting. LOL
The Mac Mini with Coffee Lake processor was only discontinued on 17th January this year so it should get support for a few years yet.
Here is also the open core legacy patcher discord server https://discord.gg/VksGxBg3
Mixed feelings. Go by date-released and the spec changes were pretty tame, but date-discontinued has gotten harsher. Ventura dropped the 2015/2017 Air, last sold July 2019, and the 2013 MacPro, last sold December 2019. Sonoma drops the 2017 21.5" iMac, which was still sold new until October 2021.
Granted, the 2017 iMac had been largely replaced 2019 with only the entry level model lingering as a last vestige, but I've still got a bad feeling the 2019 Mac Pro, 2018 Mini, and other Intel models by extension, will only receive support for two more MacOS major versions, with Somona counting as the first of those two.
Only good news is that the 2019 iMac is still supported, so the T2 chip can't be a requirement.
The 2019 iMac was the last Intell Mac without a T2 chip
It does boot on older macs but apparently we'll have a lot of work to do
Wow 2017 iMac and MBP is kinda weird to drop support for, not sure what they are missing over a 2018?
Pretty transparent what Apple is doing. Next year 2018s are losing it, and in 2025 we'll get the real shocker – M1 or SOL.
Hi to all!
Clean installed macOS 14 beta1 Sonoma on my CMP 3.1... ..works?
No graphics acceleration, no wifi+BT (BCM94360CD), no some anymore? ))
OpenCore config compilled by OCLP 0.6.6
Best Regards for team of dev's!
Clean installed macOS 14 beta1 Sonoma on my CMP 3.1... ..works?
No graphics acceleration, no wifi+BT (BCM94360CD), no some anymore? ))
OpenCore config compilled by OCLP 0.6.6
Best Regards for team of dev's!
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MBP11,3: macOS 14 developer beta installs from OCLP’d USB flash drive (which now must be bigger than 16 GB) on an external Thunderbolt 2 SSD, boots, and OCLP 0.6.7 can be installed to the EFI; but no Wi-Fi during macOS setup, no mouse scrolling in the Finder (only the built-in trackpad works as it should), and above all installing the root patches fails (complaining about not finding the GeForce bundle in some var folder): so currently no accelerated graphics and thus end of the experiment! Beautiful desktop in macOS Sonoma, anyway…
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macOS 14 beta 1 does boot with the latest OCLP on an iMac 11,2 with an upgraded gpu.
Things I have noticed:
WiFi brcm94360cs2 does no longer function (probably needs patching now with this version).
Gpu acceleration is very broken as you can see by the background(this was after post install root patches), although animations and such are smooth again. It does seem to only be related to the background image.
Audio works!
Display brightness no longer works.
Ethernet works!
After applying root patches by OCLP 0.6.7 - same green artifacts, GeekBench 6 - works good, but OpenGL based benchmarks crashes.
True! Apple really wants us to get off Intel. I wonder how Microsoft be feeling?
I am fine with dropping all intel after Sonoma, but they better leave it rock solid stable before they drop support for it.