OpenCore Legacy Patcher project brings macOS Sonoma support to 16-year-old Macs
But there are some incompatibilities that a small indie team just can't fix.
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Yesterday, the OCLP team announced version 1.0.0 of the software, the first to formally support the recently released macOS 14 Sonoma.
Some graphics features are broken pretty much across the board on older Macs, even ones that do have Metal GPUs—playing DRM-protected video in Safari, using Live Text OCR, and enabling Continuity Camera are all listed as non- or semi-functional on the project's support page.
OCLP has only had limited success supporting Apple's T1 chip, a proto-Apple Silicon coprocessor included in Touch Bar MacBook Pros in 2016 and 2017.
The OCLP team has had limited success using older system files to get it working again, but doing this also breaks Apple ID login on those Macs, affecting an even longer list of features.
Still, compatibility issues or not, the OCLP project is an impressive undertaking that can allow more technically savvy users to squeeze a few more years out of an aging but otherwise functional Mac that Apple no longer supports.
Even installing a somewhat older macOS version like 2022's Ventura or 2021's Monterey will get you security patches and Safari updates rather than leaving your system unprotected.
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