I'm getting a 2015 Macbook Air with 4gb ram. Is it possible to run something newer than Monterey on it using Opencore Legacy Patcher?
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Opencore Legacy Patcher on 2015 Macbook Air 4GB
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Ya I'll probably just run Monterey. I' primarily using it for Office 365, surfing the web and watching YouTube.
I have a 2011 MBA with 4Gb and it runs Sonoma using OCLP . It won't set the world on fire but it is an ok standby machine.
My 2015 MBA (11) runs Sequoia using OCLP rather well considering, but it does have 8GB RAM.
My 2015 MBA (11) runs Sequoia using OCLP rather well considering, but it does have 8GB RAM.
Taking advantage of this thread, MBAir 2015 with 4GB, casual use for browsing and while waiting to upgrade it to an M3 or M4 in the next year I'd try OCLP to upgrade from Monterey, from personal experience would you do that and which OS would you suggest, Sonoma?
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Sonoma would work but it is not fun with only 4 GB of RAM, and Sequoia is no fun at all (I watched the videos I found, not advised to go to Sequoia at all with ony 4 GB).
I own a Macbook Air 2013 with only 4 GB RAM and it runs MacOS Ventura quite well (done with OCLP 2.0.2), word processing, surfing the internet and also YouTube is not a problem. Even switching between programs is quite responsive. The SSD speed on the 2015-2017 models is twice as fast as on a 2013-2014 model, so this definitively also helps (I upgraded mine with a new 512 GB Fanxiang SSD, what also doubled the SSD speed).
I could upgrade to Sequoia, but I have watched videos of people who tried, it is not usable, for Sequoia, 8 GB is really needed, I tried it on my other MacBook Air 2013 with 8GB RAM and it runs okay with Sequoia.
For the 4 GB models, I advise to go to MacOS Ventura because you will still get security updates until Autumn 2025 and it also has received the latest Safari browser patches.
I own a Macbook Air 2013 with only 4 GB RAM and it runs MacOS Ventura quite well (done with OCLP 2.0.2), word processing, surfing the internet and also YouTube is not a problem. Even switching between programs is quite responsive. The SSD speed on the 2015-2017 models is twice as fast as on a 2013-2014 model, so this definitively also helps (I upgraded mine with a new 512 GB Fanxiang SSD, what also doubled the SSD speed).
I could upgrade to Sequoia, but I have watched videos of people who tried, it is not usable, for Sequoia, 8 GB is really needed, I tried it on my other MacBook Air 2013 with 8GB RAM and it runs okay with Sequoia.
For the 4 GB models, I advise to go to MacOS Ventura because you will still get security updates until Autumn 2025 and it also has received the latest Safari browser patches.
Thanks for posting this. My MacBook Air will be here tomorrow and I'm putting a 512 GB SSD in it and will go with MacOS Ventura. I've looked at a lot of reddit posts and they say Ventura is ok with only 4 GB ram
I got my MacBook Air and installed the SSD upgrade. I decided to give Sonoma a try to see what the limitations are. It works fine on 4GB of ram. Not a speed demon by any means. I don't do a lot of multi-tasking just a few Chrome tabs open and watch YouTube and the occasional Word or Excel document.
Thank you for this update.
Until all the maintenance tasks are completed by all these macOS programs, the 4GB seem to be holding back. Once all these tasks are complete and the CPU load is basically not there yet, it should feel a lot better. I noticed similar behaviour when I updated a MBA 2015 with 8 GB of RAM, it was also quite slow just after the update, but after letting it do these tasks it is not an issue anymore.
Until all the maintenance tasks are completed by all these macOS programs, the 4GB seem to be holding back. Once all these tasks are complete and the CPU load is basically not there yet, it should feel a lot better. I noticed similar behaviour when I updated a MBA 2015 with 8 GB of RAM, it was also quite slow just after the update, but after letting it do these tasks it is not an issue anymore.