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I've made a Snow Leopard boldly go where no Snow Leopard has presumably gone before...

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...onto my recently acquired (Late) 2012 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro :D

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Amethyst1 said:
I've made a Snow Leopard boldly go where no Snow Leopard has presumably gone before...

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...onto my recently acquired (Late) 2012 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro :D

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Well uhhhh... I should have thought of putting SL on my 2012 13" MBP before I sold it... if it was possible. How did you get the drivers to work?? I'm mainly curious about how you got QE/CI to work if possible
 
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k24a1 said:
I'm mainly curious about how you got QE/CI to work if possible
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No QE/CI, no audio, no Bluetooth, no Thunderbolt, no special keys (function row) on keyboard, no trackpad gestures. The second picture is to illustrate all that. All I did was replace the kernel with one patched for Ivy Bridge support fished out of this. ;)
 
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Amethyst1 said:
No QE/CI, no audio, no Bluetooth, no Thunderbolt, no special keys (function row) on keyboard, no trackpad gestures. The second picture is to illustrate all that. All I did was replace the kernel with one patched for Ivy Bridge support fished out of this. ;)
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Ah, figured. Still, that is very impressive!
 
k24a1 said:
Ah, figured. Still, that is very impressive!
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AirPort seems to work at least. Next up is the unloved Lion — that should do better given the non-Retina 2012 13” shipped with it.
 
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MBAir2010 said:
what was the first step?
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Restoring 10.6.8 onto the MBP’s SSD. :) Second and last step is in post 729.

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i was deemed "one of a kind" this weekend for pondering the use of Mojave in a mew M! MacBook BS.
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Impossible unless you count emulation as a means. (I don't. :p)

swamprock said:
Installed Snow Leopard on my slightly-modified Macbook4,1. Ultra-fast with an SSD in it, and I found the SL-compatible Trim Enabler, thankfully. Time to dig in...
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That looks great. Time to slap in a MacBook5,2's logic board and give it another boost. :)
 
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swamprock said:
Installed Snow Leopard on my slightly-modified Macbook4,1. Ultra-fast with an SSD in it, and I found the SL-compatible Trim Enabler, thankfully. Time to dig in...

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That looks beautiful! I have a MacBook 2,1 that I "built" similar to that, only that it has the full black uppercase, since it was Frankenstein'd together from spare parts. (And mine looks waaay jankier.) I've wanted to give one of my A1181 5,2s a similar treatment; I'm just way too lazy to go to the trouble of replacing all of the keys...

Oh, and super kudos to you for having an A11181 with a pristine-looking top case too!
 
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Been a lurker till now... glad to meet you all!

I got myself a 13" mid-2010 Macbook Pro for an amazingly low price - especially considering the pristine condition it's in - and it arrived today. I have a lot of nostalgia for Snow Leopard but it's frustrating to use alongside modern applications, so I erased that off my MBP and installed antiX Linux instead. It works like a charm. And it's one less quality machine needlessly gone to e-waste!

(I used Snow Leopard through all of 2020 on a white polycarbonate macbook and struggled to get applications like Discord to function properly on it.)

It's going to be my daily driver for all of my undergraduate studies, and hopefully it will last past my graduation too. Considering how sturdy these machines are I wouldn't be surprised.
 
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nuclearfusion said:
Been a lurker till now... glad to meet you all!

I got myself a 13" mid-2010 Macbook Pro for an amazingly low price - especially considering the pristine condition it's in - and it arrived today.
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try Mojave, or even El Capitan which can sync iPhones and iPads.
Mojave is great on my MacBook Air 2010 which i easily installed via dosdude patcher.
the safari and security features are current, for now
i use snow leopard weekly, but for a while like an hour
because it can't internet or iCloud, which even Mt Lion is getting unusable recently.

if you need batteries or ram, i recommend OWC macsales in the USA.

have fun, that is a nice MacBook pro even in 2021!
 
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MBAir2010 said:
the safari and security features are current, for now
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This is why I'm set on using Linux - it will get reliable updates for much longer (and I'm a bit of a Linux fan in general).

I got some spare parts off eBay for this macbook too, an SSD and a bit of RAM. It's crazy how rare and expensive 8gb 1066mhz ram is these days.

And yes, it's a very nice machine!
 
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MBAir2010 said:
if you need batteries or ram, i recommend OWC macsales in the USA.
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They’re usually overpriced though. I can understand not wanting to cheap out on a battery but finding compatible RAM at a good price is less of an issue.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
I've made a Snow Leopard boldly go where no Snow Leopard has presumably gone before...

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...onto my recently acquired (Late) 2012 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro :D

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Nifty!

if you spoof the CPUID and Intel HD 4000 device ID with that of Sandy bridge and intel HD 3000 respectively, I have found Snow Leopard will boot up natively

at least it did on this PC Laptop I have lying around http://valid.x86.fr/x413e3

(well ok the display never properly int'ed but thats a known issue with Snow Leopard and HD 3000 on hackintoshes in general, it looked like it would of worked otherwise :) )

so I have wondered if you could use this to boot Snow Leopard on an Ivy Bridge HD 4000 Mac! given that you have gotten most of the way there it may well work!

(you might need to play around with different frame-buffer personalities tho, because I know the PC laptop I used was LVDS but im not sure if the first Gen 13 inch rMBP is LVDS or eDP)
 
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Amethyst1 said:
They’re usually overpriced though. I can understand not wanting to cheap out on a battery but finding compatible RAM at a good price is less of an issue.
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i was thinking along with free shipping and one source for 2 items, their customer service is exceptional.
 
LightBulbFun said:
if you spoof the CPUID and Intel HD 4000 device ID with that of Sandy bridge and intel HD 3000 respectively, I have found Snow Leopard will boot up natively
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Could I also edit the HD 3000 kexts to include the HD 4000's device ID?

LightBulbFun said:
(you might need to play around with different frame-buffer personalities tho, because I know the PC laptop I used was LVDS but im not sure if the first Gen 13 inch rMBP is LVDS or eDP)
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It's eDP, like all rMBPs.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Could I also edit the HD 3000 kexts to include the HD 4000's device ID?
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Maybe but Im not 100% sure however, I imagine you will have to both put it in the plist and hex edit the binary as well

you can do such spoofing with OpenCore so might be worth a shot with that (I did back in the Clover days on that PC laptop but running clover on a real mac is not recommended!)
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It's eDP, like all rMBPs.
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ah cool! I wonder if anyones making rMBP, eDP to DP boards? :)

I know the guys who did the original iPad 3/4 Retina LCD boards was also doing or planning something for rMBPs but its been a good few years since I have looked into it!
 
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Amethyst1 said:
I've made a Snow Leopard boldly go where no Snow Leopard has presumably gone before...

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...onto my recently acquired (Late) 2012 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro :D

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A M A Z I N G !

Even if there’s a bunch of stuff which doesn’t work (yet?), that you were able to do this with a retina MBP is nothing shy of captivating. :D
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Next up is the unloved Lion — that should do better given the non-Retina 2012 13” shipped with it.
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Here goes:

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Audio, Bluetooth, display brightness adjustment and the trackpad gestures aren't working. AirPort, Graphics acceleration including QE/CI, the SD card reader and Thunderbolt are working or at least properly detected in System Profiler. Not sure about USB 3.0. Some stuff was imported from Mountain Lion: AppleUSBTopCase.kext got the function keys including backlight adjustment working and the proper EDID override exposed the scaled HiDPI modes.
 
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I still run a 2011 Mac Mini 2.5Ghz as a media computer in my shed. It does ramp up those fans like crazy just trying to play YouTube.
 
yodabolt said:
I still run a 2011 Mac Mini 2.5Ghz as a media computer in my shed. It does ramp up those fans like crazy just trying to play YouTube.
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If you force h.264, then the fans shouldn't ramp up.

That means using Safari in macOS 10.x or else a different browser with a plug-in. (Safari in macOS 11 switches to VP9, and Chrome by default uses VP9.)
 
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