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I have had luck running newer MacOSes on my 2008 Macbook Pro with http://dosdude1.com/software.html http://dosdude1.com/software.html The machine isn't really
by muststopmyths 5y ago
I have had luck running newer MacOSes on my 2008 Macbook Pro with http://dosdude1.com/software.html http://dosdude1.com/software.html
The machine isn't really usable with the current OSes, being dog slow at everything.
But you do bring up an interesting point. I have had the same issues with Windows on older hardware.
Which makes me wonder why hardware with 2.5-3GhZ CPUs and SSDs is not enough to run a current version of an OS even with 4-6 GB of RAM.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoProbably the same reason for both companies: at some point doing regression testing encompassing a decade or more of old hardware becomes untenable. Developers are always happy when they can deprecate old systems because their new code can assume the shiny new fast hardware and full-featured API of the new OS. QA is even happier.
- tuatoru 5y ago"Security". Newer CPUs have hardware for AES decryption and other such stuff. Hardware can do it about 100x faster than software. OS manufacturers have spread "security" all through their stack.