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dosdude1's personal blog at dosdude1.com covers hardware and systems. Since 2016, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Show HN: Make a hackintosh out of an older mac using Mojave patcher”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- Show HN: Make a hackintosh out of an older mac using Mojave patcher13 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2018-09-08
- How to run Mac OS Catalina on unsupported hardware8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-10-20
- /software.html6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-11-12
- /highsierra/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-07-13
- /sierrapatch.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-09-21
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-29
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I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro running Catalina that I still use daily. As far as I can tell it still receives security updates. There's a simple patcher you can use for these old macbooks: http://dosdude1.com/catalina/
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on “Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers””Submitted How to run Mac OS Catalina on unsupported hardware as a story · 36 points
HN discussionActually you can run the newest OS on your 2009 MacBook, its not official, but it is possible and runs OK. Same as running Windows 11 on older unsupported hardware. https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ I'm running OS 10.13 on a 2008 MacBook right now (officially supports 10.11). Using: http://dosdude1.com/software.html It runs great, beyond 10.13 the OS seems to run slower tho. It's not necessary at t…
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on “Apple’s Self Service Repair now available”Submitted Show HN: Make a hackintosh out of an older mac using Mojave patcher as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThat's strange. Chrome says it requires MacOS 10.11, Firefox says it requires MacOS 10.12. Based on that it would appear that Chrome is supporting older versions of MacOS than Firefox. MacOS 10.11 supports every 2008 and newer Apple computer. There are also patches to get newer versions of MacOS on old hardware. I'm using one patch to get 10.13 running on a 2008 MacBook Pro and it runs great. http://dosdude1.com/sof…
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on “Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox”Submitted The MacOS Mojave Patcher Tool for Unsupported Macs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAs to your last point regarding incompatible hardware, you can use tools like this to patch the installer. http://dosdude1.com/catalina/
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on “Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?”Submitted MacOS Mojave Patcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://dosdude1.com/mojave/ , maybe?
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on “All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward”There are ways around the official support drop as well, I run macOS mojave fine with a Mac Pro 3,1. These original cheese grater macs are truly still the best desktop tower they'll ever make at this point. It'd be fun to trick one out with a 3rd gen threadripper, which is probably faster than the 28-core rumored $35,000 mac pro. Here's the patcher: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ There are caveats, but I've found it to…
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on “New Mac Pro”There will likely be hacks like DosDude's Sierra patch [1]. 7 years of updates is still quite a lot, and I'm sure your Mac Mini will still be useful past its 10th birthday. [1] http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html
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on “Apple introduces macOS Mojave”I think https://dosdude1.com/ provides such services? And his YouTube channel is a great place to start if you’re looking to DIY this: https://www.youtube.com/user/dosdude1
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on “Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price”I'm on an early 2011 MBP. I've been stuck on High Sierra. There's a patch for Mojave ( http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ ), but honestly I have no reason to really upgrade to it. The only blocker I've run across so far is that I can't compile Flutter apps for iOS unless I downgrade Flutter. Since I mostly use it to learn and not really leverage, it's not really an issue yet. I was planning on upgrading to a new MBP next m…
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on “macOS Big Sur Preview”I cloned to a USB drive, swapped the SSDs, and then booted up with the USB drive, and cloned back to the new SSD. -- You will need an NVMe SSD adapter similar to this https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2015-Mac... There's a whole thread writeup here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-mac... -- You can also download old versions of MacOS installers. I forget the link to the eas…
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on “My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs”You might want to give "macOS Patcher" a try. http://dosdude1.com/software.html It's main purpose is to allow for running macOS on unsupported Macs, but it also can download the original unmodified version. I've only used the unpatched Mojave version myself and I have no idea how well it supports slow/unstable connections.
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on “Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)”Only problems have been after the occasional update, when the patches haven't been updated. A few times it's taken 5-6 reboots to start OSX properly. The best way is to delay updates as long as possible! Apart from that, no problems at all. http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/ and the related forum posts were excellent.
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on “Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor”I have had luck running newer MacOSes on my 2008 Macbook Pro with http://dosdude1.com/software.html The machine isn't really usable with the current OSes, being dog slow at everything. But you do bring up an interesting point. I have had the same issues with Windows on older hardware. Which makes me wonder why hardware with 2.5-3GhZ CPUs and SSDs is not enough to run a current version of an OS even with 4-6 GB of RA…
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on “My love-hate affair with technology”If you don't mind stranding from the 100% stable roads, you can install Mojave on your macbook using this patcher: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ Personally I am running Mojave on a late 2009 macbook pro and it still works amazingly well. Transition from Mojave and especially the new XCode are also way faster than previous iterations. There are caveats though, as the processor in my computer is too old, I had to hack h…
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on “Why Swift for TensorFlow?”macOS Mojave Patcher Tool for Unsupported Macs http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
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on “Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown”There’s a guy that has built a patching tool to “Hackintosh” an older, unsupported Mac with the newest OS: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
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on “Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)”You can hackintosh some old Macs to run Mojave using http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
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on “Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)”This will get you onto High Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/
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on “Why You Should Build a Hackintosh”See reply below about Open Core Legacy Patcher[1] which enables to use older Intel Models to use modern OS Versions. And for even older hardware, check out the patchers from Dosdude[2]. Most likely this will not be possible with the M-Class Processors from Apple, which is a shame. [1] https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht... [2] http://dosdude1.com/
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on “Apple’s macOS Ventura – New Security Changes”It’s unfortunate that Apple hasn’t made special dmg downloads to allow you to download Mavericks. My understanding of the App Store link to buy Mavericks is that it only loads of your computer is “old enough” or running 10.7 or 10.8 already. It was the first “free” update, if I recall correctly, and like the updates that followed (10.10, 10.11, 10.12) there were restrictions so only specific computers could download…
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on “Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download”I just tried this and got "Install failed with error: Update not found". A few days back I was searching around for how to download old macOS/OS X versions, so that I could run a VM to test my app [0]. For the first hour or so, all I could find was sites that linked to the official App Store downloads for the last 3 OSes, which didn't work. The page would open in the App Store app, I'd click "Get", and it would say…
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on “Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download”You can DIY http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
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on “About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1”http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ just posted this if you're interested, never thought I'd suggest hackintosh resources to a Mac user, but if you need any of those new features: https://www.tonymacx86.com/nvidia-drivers
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on “About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1”Anyone tried this before to patch older OSX? PCs are more open so I assumed (correctly) this would exist. http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
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on “About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1”Just a heads up, for anyone running the now "unsupported" 2008 MacPro's, MacBooks, and the like. http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html Worked perfectly for me. Patches the installer, reboot, install as normal, reboot, run the post patch stuff, reboot. done. Been running the GM release for the past week with zero issues on my Early 2008.
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on “macOS 10.12 Sierra: The Ars Technica review”Surprisingly, you can get the current macOS Catalina running on 2008 Mac(Book)s with the tools published by dosdude1 and other contributors [1]. macOS Catalina will actually still get security updates for two years after Big Sur is released (they support macOS releases three years after release). So that's until ~late 2022, a pretty long run for that 2008 hardware until you have to go to Linux or Windows for your pa…
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on “Big Sur on Unsupported Macs”
