Have Big Sur running on my 2012 Mac mini. It runs great even though it is not officially supported, better than Catalina did in my opinion.
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My 2014 MBA is still going strong. My husband uses it alongside his imac now that he’s working from home.
Besides the remarkable hardware, the unboxing experience was chef's kiss.
How did you get Big Sur on an unsupported model? I tried dosdude1's Catalina on my 2011 Mac Mini and it was fine, but he doesn't have one for Big Sur.
There are instructions in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-11-big-sur-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2242172/
I used the first approach mentioned there, the micropatcher. It worked well for me, in part since my machine has Metal support and needs minimal patching. The only thing that needs patching is WiFi support. With that done everything works like normal.
Didn't showed off my new MacBook I got about a month ago
Finally retired my trusty mid 2012 13" fatty MacBook Pro
Finally retired my trusty mid 2012 13" fatty MacBook Pro
Here’s my two older machines. One older and other somewhat old, both still running strong.
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Here's mine. I was hoping to replace it with the new 16" M1X MBP announced at WWDC, but ... I'll just have to be patient and wait for the eventual announcement.
Oh, you've already got an M3 chip, wow!
To quote William Shakespeare, "An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own."
Finally my dream machine has been finished with the Dell / Alienware two slot 6800XT card, Pixlas mod and PowerLink.
Has been a daily driver since new.
Mid 2011 iMac 21.5
