TECH NEWS

How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

https://image.theregister.com/254231.jpg?imageId=254231&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683

Why to do it, and what to watch out for

HANDS-ON Dortania's OpenCore Legacy Patcher lets you run newer versions of macOS on unsupported Intel Macs. It's handy, but there are a few things to beware of – including macOS Tahoe.

OpenCore Legacy Patcher brings Hackintosh techniques to genuine Mac hardware. It's an inspired hack that helps you to install newer versions of Apple macOS on older Macs for which Apple has dropped support in recent versions of macOS. Its co-author, Mykola Grymalyuk, has a fascinating retrospective on its development.

We introduced OCLP a few years ago when it was still quite new. Our screenshot then showed version 1.01, but as the project's GitHub page shows, it's now up to version 2.4.1. It does still have one big drawback, though. At present, the newest macOS it can help with is version 15 "Sequoia," whose release we covered back in...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to theregister.com. To see the full text click HERE

Read more