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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread

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waz0wski said:
Sadly my old 2009 4,1->5,1 cMP bootrom finally failed :(

Seen the nMP 2019 deals but decided to be cheap and keep saving for a Studio Ultra
Was able to snag a trashcan 6,1 cheap locally, swapped over my ssd, and a quick OCLP rerun, back in business

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It´s very easy to reconstruct the ROM. Talk with @tsialex I have backups and mattecards for two Mac Pros 5,1

Some weeks ago, it failed my ROM in one of them. I inserted my Matte Card and continued working in seconds.
 
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MacinMan said:
Based on a tweet from Mr. Macintosh it sounds like all the major updates require M Series Macs, so if that's the case, why bother with intel, when all the features people might want require a different platform.
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I care very little all those "new" featrures. So happy they keep Intel updates.
 
MacinMan said:
That's what I meant though, wasn't the main reason to upgrade to 15 for the AI features, I don't watch the keynotes anymore, but that was my whole understanding of the main set of features coming to the updates this year. So, I was simply curious, as to if the the main features aren't available on older macs, what reason would people have to upgrade, especially those on unsupported machines.
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It will be required for Xcode 16 for example…
 
Well, in fact, I´m running Monterey in all my macs. Even the ones that officially support Sonoma.
Just testing Ventura these last months, cause, ocasionally, I will have to update.

Don´t like Sonoma at all.
 
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Imac27/13.2 14.5/1.6.0n. Even though the Sequoia update did not work it was fairly easy to get back to normal. I did learn that the Sequoia Dev Beta does show up and ask if I want to upgrade(I won"t try again for awhile), if you click on the (learn more) option it goes to a page in the browser about "Apple Intelligence" and all the new updates are there, and the full Sequoia beta 14.7BG can be downloaded. When I tried to open it I got the message that I did not have an app for this.
 
timothy24 said:
need OCLP 1.6 nightly please
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Take a look at this video by Mr. Macintosh. He states clearly in the video that the OCLP developers have given a stern statement not attempting to install macOS 15. Now, being that you asked for 1.6 nightly on the Sonoma thread, this might not be your intention, but I thought a word of clarification would also be wise here.
 
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deeveedee said:
For the adventurous, there is a sequoia-development branch
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EDIT: Note that I haven't tried to access or review this branch. It wouldn't surprise me if access is or will be restricted.
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It’s actually also quite easy to download the sequoia-development branch OCLP installer: but it requires a little trick, that only the more savvy ones will know… ;):)

(Just tried the latest Sequoia branch OCLP nightly; but root patching, while now available to do, still doesn’t work: so, definitely too early to try any experiment.)
 
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rehkram said:
"And verily, many among the multitude ignored the warnings of the high priests of Dortania, and a great wailing and gnashing of teeth arose across the land of the Unsupported which continued for 40 days and 40 nights..."

No thanks. I'll wait. 🤣
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Don't forget roaring and pounding of bellies like angry monkeys as well ;)
 
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Hey all, got a question. I've tried to do research on this first through the appropriate channels before asking here, but art of the question would possibly concern OCLP / unsupported Macs. Does anyone who uses OCLP on an unsupported Mac game? e.g. steam+wine? Part of why I determined OCLP wouldn't work for me when I spoke more actively here was because of the graphics drivers issues when it came to running VMs and 3D acceleration. Since then , as I mentioned a while back, I went a different route (linux + steam+ proton) which good success, but I've run into a few games that do perform better in macOS, even with wine, or even natively via the Heroic launcher , ,and steam. How does gaming translate to running an unsupported OS? Everything seems to have a good balance right now between my dual boot of Monterey, and Ubuntu on this iMac 17,1. I was curious though, if I were to try OCLP again, would I run into similar 3D graphics issues I did with VMware, but with Wine? I thought I would ask first to get feedback before just randomly messing up my nearly stable setup.

Thanks.
 
Sven G said:
It’s actually also quite easy to download
amaze1499 said:
That’s our call!!!
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OCLP installer: but it requires a little trick, that only the more savvy ones will know… ;):)

(Just tried the latest Sequoia branch OCLP nightly; but root patching, while now available to do, still doesn’t work: so, definitely too early to try any experiment.)
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So far, only the Sequoia acknowledgement and OpenCanopy assets have been added to the Sequoia-development branch. Waiting is strongly advised. 🧐
 
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