MP 1,1-5,1 MP5,1 - tempted to sell a mint Mac that hit a dead end with Mojave

[mode11]

I hadn't really seen much about Ventura on the 5,1. There's thread that discusses it on the 6,1 (which I assume is more compatible?), and there seems to be issues with DRM (Netflix etc.) and power management (fixed clock speed regardless of load). Do these apply to the 5,1?

 

[O.N.Y.X]

OCLP does this quite well and runs Ventura nicely.

While this may be true (and welcome) it’s getting more and more difficult for the OC developers to adapt to new OS releases. At some point they might drop the cheesegraters.

 

[O.N.Y.X]

I'm running Ventura just fine on my 5,1 via OCLP. Upgraded bluetooth card, only thing I had to do was on install plus my wired keyboard and mouse into my internal USB3 card and the USB in the normal port and all went swimmingly.

Good to hear. Curious, which USB 3 card works well for you?

 

[ignatius345]

Unless there are good recommendations on how to get latest Apple apps running on my Mac Pro, I'll be forced to sell it "as is".

The Mac Pro is in like new condition, but is obviously not compatible with any of the Open Core packages out there. However, I need this Mac to run the latest versions of e.g. Pages (but also Logic) as the recently updated iPad/iPhone/MacOS versions are not backwards compatible and I'm editing and updating documents on new devices (see my sig.). Also, being limited to Mojave, this Mac can not communicate with my iPad/iPhone anymore - Airdrop has stopped working. Essentially, the Mac Pro has become useless in its current state.

All attempts to install OC have failed. I have not once seen the option of "EFI Boot" ever on any of the OC packages tried. In fact, I've come close to f*cking up the Mac for good.

Are there alternative ways to get at least Pages to work on Mojave?

One way you could keep using the MP and run current apps is to maybe plug in a base model Mac Mini and switch between it and your MP via a KVM switch?

 

[vsc]

I have a MacPro 5,1 with an upgraded combo WiFi/BlueTooth card running MacOS 12.6.7 via OpenCore. Though while I have a flashed RX580 this isn't a requirement. Everything works with this configuration.

Also I have tested the latest Ventura release on this hardware and it works well short of one thing. Any software that uses Apple's CoreML on Ventura will not use the GPU for acceleration, falling back on the Xeon cores. Examples softwares are ON1 and Topaz which accelerate their processing on the GPU with MacOS 12, but fall short in performance with Ventura. The Xeon while fast fall short of the GPU's processing speed, even with the older RX580.

 

[nettmanek]

is there any list of the software that uses CoreML?