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You can look up and read my previous posts as I have gone to great lengths in giving my opinions.
To summarise: during the time I was using Sequoia, i.e. from when it was released until the end of last April, it constantly seemed as if the my Mac had lost its proverbial stability in ANYTHING I did. Apart from there being several bugs that may remain unresolved, not having a Metal 3 video card, etc.
Back in Sonoma, instead, I went back to work as if I had bought a new Mac. After all, Sequoia doesn't have much more to offer and it also suffers from Apple's AI-oriented complexity and experiments.!… AI which will NOT affect our Intel Macs...
Reread my posts above and also ask yourself a question:
if you had a beautiful Mercedes car from 2023 that you were happy with... would you change it to the 2024 model just for a few small cosmetic changes and KNOWING that they were rewriting the entire ECU, for example in view of electrification and AI programmes that will never affect the your beautiful car?
Only in IT are we fickle and swayable with no real reason to leave the certain for the uncertain...
Great @OKonnel !I didn't follow your advice and installed Sequoia on my MBP 8,1 (2011 without Metal). It didn't work very well, but I installed all Sequoia and OCLP updates up to 2.4.0 while waiting for improvements. I was wrong! Today (finally) I reverted to Sonoma 14.7.6 (clean install) and it seems to work much better. My previous approach (until Monterey) was "install Major Release -1"... better to keep it that way!
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Having an issue, trying to update a Late 2012 iMac 27" (13,2) from 14.7.4 to 14.7.6, using an OCLP 2.4.0. ...since the OTA update fails (Error occurs when preparing update), I created an OCLP 2.4.0 USB (new 64GB) key to do the update.
No matter what I try (remove patches and Safe Boot), when I select the USB key to boot from, it boots right into the current 14.7.4 system on the iMac, never showing the option to install the OS.
What do I need to do to force it to boot from the externally connected OCLP 2.4.0 USB, THEN showing me the install options, instead of simply booting the iMac?
I know its booting off the key, because the OCLP installed on the iMac, will pop up telling me, that you are booting off the external USB, and would I like to instead boot off the OCLP on the machine.
any help to this answer, would be greatly appreciated !!
What do I need to do to force it to boot from the externally connected OCLP 2.4.0 USB, THEN showing me the install options, instead of simply booting the iMac?
No matter what I try (remove patches and Safe Boot), when I select the USB key to boot from, it boots right into the current 14.7.4 system on the iMac, never showing the option to install the OS.
What do I need to do to force it to boot from the externally connected OCLP 2.4.0 USB, THEN showing me the install options, instead of simply booting the iMac?
I know its booting off the key, because the OCLP installed on the iMac, will pop up telling me, that you are booting off the external USB, and would I like to instead boot off the OCLP on the machine.
any help to this answer, would be greatly appreciated !!
What do I need to do to force it to boot from the externally connected OCLP 2.4.0 USB, THEN showing me the install options, instead of simply booting the iMac?
It's possible that you are selecting the USB as boot drive, but the OCLP setting is to not show the boot picker, so it auto selects the internal drive after that. Have you tried using the option key twice? Once to select the USB stick, and then immediately again to select the install partition on the USB stick?
@Kevo probably right. Boot holding down Option key until Mac Boot Picker screen appears. Select USB install EFI to load OpenCore. Select Install macOS.
@Kevo @Bigwaff
If I am understanding correctly, I need to hold the Option key two times, during boot up.
Once, when I boot up from shut down, at which time I will subsequently see four icons load across the screen; the internal EFI boot icon, the Macintosh HD icon, the Sonoma Install icon, and the External EFI Boot icon.
The second time I hold the option key, is after selecting the External boot icon (the fourth icon across the screen), and just before I hit the return key.
I will give this a try when I am in front of the machine this coming Tuesday.
Please stay tuned!
If I am understanding correctly, I need to hold the Option key two times, during boot up.
Once, when I boot up from shut down, at which time I will subsequently see four icons load across the screen; the internal EFI boot icon, the Macintosh HD icon, the Sonoma Install icon, and the External EFI Boot icon.
The second time I hold the option key, is after selecting the External boot icon (the fourth icon across the screen), and just before I hit the return key.
I will give this a try when I am in front of the machine this coming Tuesday.
Please stay tuned!
I would stick with Sonoma I think.. I have a 2015 MBP and Sonoma was pretty stable when I ran it.. Time Machine would not restore on Sequoia for me no matter what I did... So unfortunately at least for me I would stay away from it just for that reason.. I've gone back to Monterey just to be on a "supported" OS.. lol.. It works well enough for me until I decide I want to spend a ton of money to get a new one.. I need the 2TB NVMe space I put in this one, and apple storage is just soooo expensive new...
same situation. I have 2Tb NVMe and its so expensive to buy new one and my macbook pro 2014 still work good enough. Did you cheak how work Final cut in sonoma ?
Final Cut Pro works fine in my iMac 27" late 2013 CPU i7 24GB RAM - nVidia GTX780M 4GB VRAM - SSD Samsung EVO 870 Pro 2TB and Sonoma with OCLP 2.4.0
You can try buying it and you can return it and ask Apple for a refund if you don't like it or it doesn't work well. (Note. You can also try FCP by downloading it with a torrent (But be careful not to run into malware!...) as long as, if you see that it works well, you are honest and buy it by the App Store.