Philosophical discussion on unsupported Mac solutions

[rehkram]

OK y'all, I'm posting this because I didn't want to clog up the "Big Sur on unsupported Macs" thread, which I've been following assiduously. I'm encouraged by the progress made, particularly with the meta/management tool OCLP that aims to draw all the discreet lower level activities required into a structured, fault tolerant, debuggable, documented and easy to use system. Kudos to the OCLP developers, and all the patchers that paved the way 👍

Me, I'm sitting on a mid 2012 rMBP on Catalina which I would dearly love to keep in production and am getting close to jumping into the OCLP solution. I know that my 10,1 will likely install just fine.

There's just one thing that gives me pause; the spoofing of model numbers to make it happen. Is this not exploiting a vulnerability that Apple could very simply 'fix' somewhere down the road? Interested in your comments.

 

[joevt]

OK y'all, I'm posting this because I didn't want to clog up the "Big Sur on unsupported Macs" thread, which I've been following assiduously. I'm encouraged by the progress made, particularly with the meta/management tool OCLP that aims to draw all the discreet lower level activities required into a structured, fault tolerant, debuggable, documented and easy to use system. Kudos to the OCLP developers, and all the patchers that paved the way 👍

Me, I'm sitting on a mid 2012 rMBP on Catalina which I would dearly love to keep in production and am getting close to jumping into the OCLP solution. I know that my 10,1 will likely install just fine.

There's just one thing that gives me pause; the spoofing of model numbers to make it happen. Is this not exploiting a vulnerability that Apple could very simply 'fix' somewhere down the road? Interested in your comments.

"Somewhere down the road" doesn't matter.
OCLP (0.1.5) is about getting what exists NOW (Big Sur 11.3.1) to work on what you have NOW (2012 rMBP).
When the future comes (macOS 12.x), OCLP will be updated (0.2.x) or you'll get a new Mac (202x MBP).

 

[ghost82]

If you search who are the main developers of opencore you will realize who they are and what is/was their academic path; they're not 15 years old guys/nerds (with all the respect to all the guys here)

 

[rehkram]

When the future comes (macOS 12.x), OCLP will be updated (0.2.x) or you'll get a new Mac (202x MBP).

True. And to reinforce your point, all the work done on OCLP to that point would not need repeating, so less of a mammoth task.

If you search who are the main developers of opencore you will realize who they are and what is/was their academic path;

I have no doubt about that. In fact this is what leads me to believe that spoofing was the only way to make it work. In other words, if there had been another way to achieve the same functionality they would likely have implemented it.

That makes me uneasy due to what I perceive to be the vulnerability of that approach to Apple server-side changes and/or wholesale reconfiguration. It is what it is I guess.

Anyway, thanks for the comments while I consider taking the plunge.

 

[rehkram]

Status update: I took the plunge. Big Sur has been working flawlessly on my rMBP 10,1 for over a week now. I'm looking forward to Monterey. Many thanks and much respect to all involved.