OpenCore Legacy Patcher Supports 2012 iMac!

HENRY LOWE hlowe at me.com
Mon May 29 22:59:34 EDT 2023


Mac OS Ventura runs just fine on my 2012 iMac courtesy of OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I don’t run LC on this machine - use a 2019 iMac for that.

Henry 

> On May 29, 2023, at 7:42 PM, harrison--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.html#imac
> 
> You are very lucky!  You must have looked at an old post.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Rick
> 
>> On May 29, 2023, at 1:11 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If memory serves, the problem with older machines was not running the metal graphical system, as they lacked the hardware.
>> 
>> There were some near-contemporaneous patches that allowed at least the first post-mohave osx to run, put were reported as glacially and painfully slow as metal got emulated on older hardware.
>> 
>> This says that the patch allows supporter non-metal graphical cards, though—I’m curious how that would work on apple stuff that calls to metal.
>> 
>> But, alas, the 2012 iMac isn’t the list, so I guess I’m out of luck anyway.
>> 
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