Great project and a shame Apple doesn’t support their desktop Macs for a longer time. They never had a great track record when it comes to macOS support but I’m pretty sure that the move to Apple Silicon makes them want to get rid of every Intel Mac as fast as possible.Not even supporting the 2017 officially with their latest OS is a joke honestly (you need the 2019 model at least). I just hope they don’t abandon M1 Macs as fast.
Officially supporting 16 year old Macs probably isn’t necessary, but supporting your (expensive) computers for at least a decade should be a no-brainer, Apple!
I thought about putting Linux on my old MacBook before discovering OCLP, but I wouldn’t have had the same syncing between my laptop, my phone and my iPad. Also, it was a pain in the ass on that machine because at the time I only knew about Bootcamp, which wouldn’t work because I’d replaced the DVD drive with a second HDD.
I bought a mid-2012 Macbook specifically for Linux (I wrecked all my prior plastic laptops and wanted something robust, durable, and maintainable).
After watching Rossmann for a few years, it was the obvious choice - with replaceable RAM, HDD, USB3, Thunderbolt, WiFi AC, and the disk caddy can be replaced to hold an additional storage drive. Not to mention the vast library of his videos instructing you on how to fix various issues if need be. Other models either had problems with screen delamination, weren’t upgradeable enough, or had battery swelling problems etc.
Not a fan of apple personally, but I have to admit the 2012 design really holds up well.
I’ve been running Sonoma on my 2014 Mac mini for a few weeks now, and it’s been pretty much rock solid. That I was using the beta OS on unsupported hardware via a beta of OCLP without any major issues blew my mind.
The only problems I’m currently having are that Shortcuts don’t work at all for reasons I can’t work out, and haven’t delved into yet, and my Watch only occasionally unlocks it.
Other than that, it’s like Apple only pulls OS support to encourage people to upgrade otherwise perfectly solid hardware…
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