macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread

[EugW]

I just finished updating High Sierra Patcher, it now includes the necessary patches for some of the non-working AMD video cards (Radeon HD 5xxx, 6xxx, and 7xxx series) on the Mac Pro 3,1. Also made some minor changes to APFS booting to make it a little cleaner. Download from my webpage, as always.

What changes to the APFS booting?

 

[dosdude1]

What changes to the APFS booting?

It just makes the "apfsbootuuid" directory it creates on the main volume hidden.

 

[Blackriton]

I just finished updating High Sierra Patcher, it now includes the necessary patches for some of the non-working AMD video cards (Radeon HD 5xxx, 6xxx, and 7xxx series) on the Mac Pro 3,1. Also made some minor changes to APFS booting to make it a little cleaner. Download from my webpage, as always.

Big thanks for your incredible work. I will test the new patch as soon HS GM is confirmed as ready to roll.

 

[nekton1]

The feeling among those with closer ties to Apple, is that 13A732a is not the GM, which will be released with more bug fixes in another final build. So it is better to wait until Monday, unless you want to be doing two installs in 3 days.
[doublepost=1506061986][/doublepost]The dosdude1 patcher works with the HD 6870 too.
Thanks dude.

 

[ElsassCoyote]

I just finished updating High Sierra Patcher, it now includes the necessary patches for some of the non-working AMD video cards (Radeon HD 5xxx, 6xxx, and 7xxx series) on the Mac Pro 3,1. Also made some minor changes to APFS booting to make it a little cleaner. Download from my webpage, as always.

Thank you very much

I'll try with the 7950 Mac edition ASAP.

 

[lumos]

I can confirm this bug.

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2017 MacBook10,1 10.13 Safari 11.0 - Renders perfectly
2009 MacBookPro5,5 10.13 Safari 11.0 - Garbled like in your pic
2008 MacBook5,1 10.13 Safari 11.0 - Garbled like in your pic
2017 iMac18,3 10.12 Safari 10.1.2 - Renders perfectly
2008 MacBook4,1 10.7 Safari 6.1.6 - Doesn't display at all. Acts like your Chrome example with a static image.

It would be interesting to see the results from a MacBook6,1, since that is fully supported by High Sierra, but has the same nVidia 9400M GPU. In fact, it's almost identical to the MacBook5,1 spec-wise.

In fact, I'm going to post a thread on this.
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Seems this page is borked in general. On my 2017 iMac18,3 Sierra with Safari 10.1.2, it renders correctly until I resize the page. Then I get this:

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I have the same problem with my MacPro 3.1 with nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB.
The problem appear only with Chrome (and derivates "Opera, Vivaldi") and not with Safari or Firefox.

 

[EugW]

I have the same problem with my MacPro 3.1 with nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB.
The problem appear only with Chrome (and derivates "Opera, Vivaldi") and not with Safari or Firefox.

Thank you. That 8800 GT is a standard Apple option too.

So, that’s the second nVidia GPU that exhibits this issue (albeit with different browsers) and both are standard Mac parts that Apple shipped.

 

[valorn]

I didn’t know I had to do that but now I’ve done it and it worked. Thanks a lot for your incredible work and for helping so many people.

Just one last question: I had previously El Capitan and so I had a recovery partition.

Once I have APFS in my SSD and recovery partition is no longer usable, can I get that 4,46 GB space back to the primary partition?

Is there a way to use that partition with 4,46 Gb that now is unusable?

 

[kdc1]

hi folks! I installed HS on a macbookpro5,1 with "macOS High Sierra Patcher 2.2.6" with apfs patch but when I run Patch Updater to enable nightshift I can't because no updates are found. Thank You

 

[ks23]

Does anyone know if there is a Wi-Fi USB dongle with AWDL available?

 

[jhowarth]

Does anyone know if there is a Wi-Fi USB dongle with AWDL available?

I had an Edimax EW-7811UAC attached to my MacPro 3,1 but finally replaced it with an AirPort Extreme BCM94322MC purchased off Amazon as the USB adapter under Sierra and High Sierra would disconnect from the network whenever I ejected a USB device.

 

[ks23]

Hmm, okay. Thank you very much!
Sadly, I have a Mac mini early 2009. Hopefully on Monday my Wi-Fi dongle Asus USB-AC53 Nano AC1200 will arrive. I give that a try.

 

[jhowarth]

Hmm, okay. Thank you very much!
Sadly, I have a Mac mini early 2009. Hopefully on Monday my Wi-Fi dongle Asus USB-AC53 Nano AC1200 will arrive. I give that a try.

It would be interesting to know if other brands of usb wireless dongles and hardware configurations produce the same network disconnections that I saw on a MacPro 3,1 with the Edimax usb device and drivers when ejecting other usb devices. I always suspected that it might be an artifact from using the legacy usb drivers from 10.11 under 10.12/10.13.

 

[ks23]

I will report.
Have you tried with your Edimax EW-7811UAC the Continuity Activation Tool?
If yes, does it work?

 

[T909]

Why you no longer support MacBook (early 2008)?

 

[EugW]

Why you no longer support MacBook (early 2008)?

Apple only supports that early 2008 MacBook4,1 until 10.7.5.

The late 2008 MacBook5,1 is supported by Apple until 10.11.6, and furthermore, the hardware is nearly identical to late 2009 MacBook6,1 which Apple fully supports to 10.13.

There is another thread on how to get the early 2008 MacBook4,1 to run 10.11, but it's harder to do, and there are many problems.

 

[T909]

Apple only supports that early 2008 MacBook4,1 until 10.7.5.

The late 2008 MacBook5,1 is supported by Apple until 10.11.6, and furthermore, the hardware is nearly identical to late 2009 MacBook6,1 which Apple fully supports to 10.13.

There is another thread on how to get the early 2008 MacBook4,1 to run 10.11, but it's harder to do, and there are many problems.

Yes, I know that. I meant if there really are no attempts anymore to bring Sierra / High Sierra on white MacBook? Right now I'm running Mavericks on it. It works great and even Google Chrome is supported.

 

[EugW]

Yes, I know that. I meant if there really are no attempts anymore to bring Sierra / High Sierra on white MacBook? Right now I'm running Mavericks on it. It works great and even Google Chrome is supported.

iTunes 12.7 isn't supported on Mavericks. That's a big deal for some people, since it's supposedly what's needed for iOS 11 iDevices (although people say iTunes 12.6 works for the basic stuff).

I've been looking into getting 10.11 onto MacBook4,1 but it looks like it would be a major PITA. I ended up just spending < US$150 to buy a used MacBook5,1 and jumped straight to 10.13 High Sierra, painlessly too.

 

[jhowarth]

I will report.
Have you tried with your Edimax EW-7811UAC the Continuity Activation Tool?
If yes, does it work?

I currently only have an older AirPort Extreme basestation without 'ac' wireless support so I can't do AirDrop and such.

 

[roziek]

I currently only have an older AirPort Extreme basestation without 'ac' wireless support so I can't do AirDrop and such.

The router has nothing to do with AirDrop, Continuity, Handoff, etc, you don't need ac or even an Apple router to make use of those features. You just need a supported Mac and iOS device. And when it comes to Macs, we have options (Continuity Activation Tool, compatible external WiFi modules, changing internal WiFi card, etc).

 

[BookEmDanno]

High Sierra very, very slow on MacBookPro5,5. Specially when I remote desktop access from work to home.
Currently has HDD formatted with APFS and only 4GB ram.

I'm considering upgrading the my MBP 2009 sandbox with an SSD (trim enabled) and increasing the ram to 8GB.

For those that have similar specs, do you think there should be a significant performance boost?

~Mahalo!~

 

[nekton1]

You should not be using APFS on HDD.
Yes, SSD and more RAM will speed up HS considerably.

 

[EugW]

High Sierra very, very slow on MacBookPro5,5. Specially when I remote desktop access from work to home.
Currently has HDD formatted with APFS and only 4GB ram.

I'm considering upgrading the my MBP 2009 sandbox with an SSD (trim enabled) and increasing the ram to 8GB.

For those that have similar specs, do you think there should be a significant performance boost?

With SSD and 4 GB it's very decent, but you can't do too much multitasking. Good for surfing and email, with light MS Office.

However, wiith SSD and 8 GB you can do significant multitasking.

Depending upon what are you using it for, I would suggest upgrading to SSD first and then reassess. If insufficient then upgrade to 8 GB RAM. Or else just go right to 8 GB (with SSD) if it is your main driver.

Many could use MacBookPro5,5 with 8 GB RAM and SSD as a main driver. Although the speed boost from my new Core m3 was quite welcome, the main reason I upgraded to a 2017 MacBook was actually the Retina screen and the 2 lb weight.

 

[valorn]

High Sierra very, very slow on MacBookPro5,5. Specially when I remote desktop access from work to home.
Currently has HDD formatted with APFS and only 4GB ram.

I'm considering upgrading the my MBP 2009 sandbox with an SSD (trim enabled) and increasing the ram to 8GB.

For those that have similar specs, do you think there should be a significant performance boost?

~Mahalo!~

I have the same Macbook Pro with SSD 500 Gb trim enabled and 8 GB RAM.

Definitely, it is worth the upgrade.

You’ll have a powerfull machine again.

And HS runs like a charm thanks to dosdude1.

 

[BookEmDanno]

With SSD and 4 GB it's very decent, but you can't do too much multitasking. Good for surfing and email, with light MS Office.

However, wiith SSD and 8 GB you can do significant multitasking.

Depending upon what are you using it for, I would suggest upgrading to SSD first and then reassess. If insufficient then upgrade to 8 GB RAM. Or else just go right to 8 GB (with SSD) if it is your main driver.

Many could use MacBookPro5,5 with 8 GB RAM and SSD as a main driver. Although the speed boost from my new Core m3 was quite welcome, the main reason I upgraded to a 2017 MacBook was actually the Retina screen and the 2 lb weight.

Nekton1 and EugW, thank you for the replies.
These macs are just my sandboxes, but I think it's worth the additional investment.

Also thanks to dosdude1 for his patch, and to roziek for his earlier recommendation via private conversation.