I just stumbled upon this thread while searching for something else and found it quite curious. For those of you trying to run on really old hardware, what is the reason behind it? Are you rebels? Do you like a challenge? Are you into masochism? Are you poor?
Dear friend
@hoodafoo, I will pretend that I did not understand and I will gloss over your somewhat sarcastic and perhaps somewhat insulting attitude toward some users who really have financial difficulties and I will try, therefore, to respond regarding my choice to use OCLP.
I have a wonderful and perfect late 2013 iMac purchased from Apple, in BTO and therefore with the most powerful hardware configuration. You can see the features in my signature below. (Note: if you use your smartphone, put it horizontally to see the signatures)
Let me preface this by saying that I am well aware (!!) that my Mac has - obviously - objective hardware limitations that cannot be overcome; for example, when it comes to encoding and exporting video, my Mac cannot compete with the new Apple Silicon; but this, nevertheless, I do not do or do rarely and with little complexity and in any case the behavior of my Mac satisfies me, even if I have to wait a few minutes longer for Da Vinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro (however fast while using they...) to save the video.
But apart from this aspect, thanks to OCLP and macOS Sonoma or with Sequoia [see *Note at the end] the behavior of my iMac, both using Finder and in my usual uses, while working on it is perfectly superimposable to that of a last generation Mac.
Everything works 100% better than Catalina which is the latest officially supported OS, even Photoshop 2025 (26.2) and all other Apple or third-party applications.
Do you therefore think I should scrap the Mac? ....
So, instead of being argumentative towards us passionate and capable to use OCLP very well and/or maybe even economically indigents, why aren't you argumentative towards Apple?
To Apple would have been enough mainly not to remove many drivers present in macOS and some other small tricks and gimmicks. If you know or examine WHAT OCLP does, in fact, you will find that it is basically super simple and, most importantly, does not alter the System.
At the limit, Apple could have made people accept the total absence of warranty and service for Macs with a certain number of years (but in fact Apple already acts that way!!!).
Backwards compatibility, so, was easily possible at least up to the 2013 Macs since these Macs, up to the earliest versions of macOS Monterey, still maintained all the necessary drivers.
I hope I have answered your questions, at least to a large extent.
[*Note:
From my point of view, macOS Sequoia still has some minor problems, both with OCLP and with supported Macs, since Sequoia is in fact a quasi-experimental system because of the constant additions regarding AI and other innovations, experimental or otherwise, that are useless to many users and/or that many users will never use.
Maybe when it is all ripe and really necessary to have a new Mac we will all buy it and even the poor will find many cheap ones in the used market.
But until then: OCLP forever and endless thanks to its Developers, all living Saints
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