Understood, but I still wouldn't do it - and in fact I chose not to on my (heavily updated) 2009 Mac Pro. The biggest hassle is you need to repatch it when there are upgrades - but even that is streamlined. Most limitations were if your older computer was missing hardware to do something or just wasn't performant enough to take advantage of new features. Earlier versions of Mac OS (before Ventura) actually included the drivers for older machines in the OS so the Legacy patcher actually worked pretty well (I think some of the devs actually got some support from Apple engineers - this isn't a hackintosh). But if it were, $600 for a base model M1 Mac Mini would be a much better investment in my 2009 iMac isn't supported by Apple anyways and I certainly would recommend a full backup first so you can always restore your old system but, Mr. You also had to get a Metal-capable video card, which isn't an option on the iMac anyway. Apple's support instructions made that very clear. For example, I know that on my previous machine, a 5,1 Mac Pro, you had to update from Sierra to High Sierra to get the required firmware update for Mojave. It's unsupported by Apple and who knows what's going to happen if you try to run an OS that doesn't know about your computer.īut if you really do want to do that, I'd suggest going up one macOS version at a time - even if you're doing a totally fresh installation. I personally wouldn't recommend phaffing with OpenCore unless you really like playing with computers. This would be somewhat unsupported, but it should work if you have enough disk space and ram. Macintosh has good YouTube videos on it) but you won't be able to upgrade to Ventura (no Metal drivers for your machine) but you should be able to upgrade to Big Sur or Monterey which will support Affinity 2.0. You could try OpenCore Legacy Patcher (google it - Mr.
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