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What have you done with an obsolete OSX Mojave Today?

After trying various various versions of Wine to try out Skyrim I found that Crossover 23 (Mojave compatible) made good use of the eGPU.
 
saudor said:
SuperDuper. Been using it for years and it can do bootable APFS backups from different-size SSDs...
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Insofar as I aware, SuperDuper (and GetBackupPro) have not been able to deal with Big Sur & later, and are essentially moribund at this point.
saudor said:
It's also possible to bypass superduper completely for restoring too. (via the migration assistant - just point it to the superduper disk) Apple provides asr, which is the backbone of bootable APFS backups.
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Migrating is not cloning. Boot-clone apps have one job: cloning the OS. (Watching a floundering CCC scramble to reposition itself as a Time Machine alternative is becoming risible.)
 
I just fired up my 2010 macpro 5,1 that was in storage for a year and still running Mojave. Runs solid like it did a year ago and using 10 year old Presonus preamps and firewire elements, I don't think there is a need to really upgrade it up to another OS. The best thing is that Apple is now out of the picture in doing updates, that having them out of the way is a blessing. Sometimes the simple things is better.
 
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carylee2002 said:
I just fired up my 2010 macpro 5,1 that was in storage for a year and still running Mojave. Runs solid like it did a year ago and using 10 year old Presonus preamps and firewire elements, I don't think there is a need to really upgrade it up to another OS. The best thing is that Apple is now out of the picture in doing updates, that having them out of the way is a blessing. Sometimes the simple things is better.
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Clone your Mojave boot volume into a MacOS Extended (journaled) partition, and watch its performance noticeably increase (especially if a rotational drive).
 
carylee2002 said:
I just fired up my 2010 macpro 5,1 that was in storage for a year and still running Mojave. Runs solid like it did a year ago and using 10 year old Presonus preamps and firewire elements, I don't think there is a need to really upgrade it up to another OS. The best thing is that Apple is now out of the picture in doing updates, that having them out of the way is a blessing. Sometimes the simple things is better.
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great post!
yes im having music difficulties were Monterey and Music to 2 airplay homepods plays the first 3 songs then stops, as the porgram and system as just now, stopped at "god only knows" on Pet sounds. Meanwhile Mojave never had that problem.
i have a dual boot on a wd 500 of Catalina and Mojave and Catalina get much hotter on a MBP mid '12.

Mojave just has a great feel and enough to fully funtcion without heat, mistakes or extra passwords.
 
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MBAir2010 said:
great post!
yes im having music difficulties were Monterey and Music to 2 airplay homepods plays the first 3 songs then stops, as the porgram and system as just now, stopped at "god only knows" on Pet sounds. Meanwhile Mojave never had that problem.
i have a dual boot on a wd 500 of Catalina and Mojave and Catalina get much hotter on a MBP mid '12.

Mojave just has a great feel and enough to fully funtcion without heat, mistakes or extra passwords.
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Mojave's support of 32bit and HFS+ boot-drives render it the last good version of the MacOS. (There are a number of "early-California" annoyances, such as MRT, Spotlight, and Notifications, but they can all be turned off with Terminal tricks.)
 
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Everyone running Mojave (for its legacy features) on a 2012-2019 intel-chip computer should also implement this trick to prevent users in a work (or other) environment from accidentally "upgrading" the OS (which Apple really hopes to trick you into doing because it wants to sluggify and obsolesce your no-longer-supported machine).
 
Killing apps the Apple won't let you drag to the trash: From Recovery (or a recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks.
 
Just grabbed a:
Mac Pro 2013 (2.7gHz, 12-core, 1TB, 64GB, D700) for $450 off of eBay to go with my:
Mac Pro 2013 (3.7gHz, 4-core, 1TB, 64GB, D300) that I've had, and am now running:

The last version of macOS Server and setup an LDAP Open Directory, replica for my user accounts, and the thunderbolt bridging is 8 times faster file transfer than ethernet, so:

With 2 Promise Pegasus R4 TB2 raids and a MacBook 2015 15" (1TB OWC)
for full mirrored drive setups, and remote access, I AM IN LOVE with Mojave!!!

4-8-core Mac Pro (no-restarts)
main dotcom domain
dir server (main)
lo-tech-web server front
low risk no items server
compressor (support)
filemaker pro server (dom)
thunderbolt2 bridging (B)

12-24-core Mac Pro (lo-restarts)
dir server (replica)
file server (afp or smb, to the Snow Leopard machines :p just can't make this up!!)
logic (adv)
reason
fcp (basic)
compressor (main)
plex server
apple music (44K-aac)
HD Home Run TV
ripit DVD player
xcode project upgrade
windows vm runner
thunderbolt2 bridging (A)

added the Mac Mini but completes the 2030 project:

12-core Mac Mini Pro
logic (atmos)
reason
fcp (adv)
compressor (main)
xcode FULL
vapor FULL
postgre 16
thunderbolt3/2 bridging (C) with TB3<->TB2 adapter
10Gb ethernet bridging (B) to a 2018 MM

All hooked up to an LG 54" C9 4K@60hz with pluggable adapters into TB2 lower buses for both.
will be used for Spatial converted videos to 3D AVC, while the 12-core Mac Mini Pro will be used for UHD 4K@60 and 4K@120 editing in Log and Dolby Vision... with Logic processing Dolby Atmos...

Love this thread!! I am telling you Mojave is HOT!!!

edit: added D700 & D300
 
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rezwits said:
Yeah, i.e. don't want to be buying more MACs for absolutely no reason... LOL till at least 2030!
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Unless you render video for a living or are a professional game-streamer, or otherwise chasing the subscription-model/artificial-obsolescence dragon, personal computing peaked circa 2014 or so (at least as far as Macs are concerned): desktop screens were finally big and bright and sharp enough, and portables sleek and fast enough, that most owners weren't perpetually drooling for better features in a newer model. With DosDude1 patches, and the arrival of Kagi Orion, you can run a debloated Mojave on almost anything made between 2008 and 2019 with a modern browser (having access to both Chrome and Firefox extensions) and kosher 32bit software and HFS+ (fast on rotational-drives) support. The 2014 Macbook Pro 15" was the perfect portable: a fast i7 featuring a Retina screen )without that detestable scuff-attracting antiglare coating) and user-upgradeable ram and blade-SSD.

Manufacturer-brickable "security" chips are now built into machines to force at-whim deprecation, and the new operating systems ecosystem bloat and surveillance -- so lightly-upgraded mid-teens hardware is the sweet spot for running lightly-modded late-teens operating systems, e.g., Mojave and Windows 10.
 
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